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Quotes About Service

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.
~ Donald Barnhouse
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
~ George S. Patton
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
~ John Woolman
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
~ Luke the Evangelist
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
~ Andrew Carnegie
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
~ Ellen G. White
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
~ William Barclay
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
~ John F. Kennedy
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
~ Henry Ford
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
~ John Buford
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
~ Pythagoras
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
~ C. S. Lewis
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
~ Sam Shoemaker
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
~ J. G. Holland
The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.
~ George Washington
Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi