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Quotes About Service

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
~ Abraham Lincoln
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
~ Adam Clarke
Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.
~ Andrew Peterson
The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"
~ Andy Murray
The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.
~ Barack Obama
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
~ Bill Bryson
... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
~ Bill Cooke
The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
~ Charles Spurgeon
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.
~ Charles Todd
They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
~ Christopher Pike
My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.
~ Clara Barton
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
~ Confucius
My delivery just got me buzzin like the pizza man
~ Drake
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
~ Edmund Burke
So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.
~ Ellen G. White
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
~ Gabriel Byrne
Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
~ George R. R. Martin
When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
~ George R. R. Martin
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.
~ Louisa May Alcott