Quotes About Service

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.

Something needs to change when you start losing your focus as a missionary. You need to do something to gain that focus again.

On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.

I don't hate people. I just accept missions.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

The citizens of Missouri expect their government to perform well for them every day.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

Somewhere in the mix, we forgot the very critical people who deliver the service.

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.

I don't leave home to go help other people live if I'm not modeling that in our home setting.