Quotes About Service

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.