Quotes About Service

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.