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Quotes About Service

Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters are hot stuff!
~ Author Unknown
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~ Author Unknown
What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighting — one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~ Author Unknown
Volunteer firefighters do it for free!
~ Author Unknown
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
So as you look at the firefighter with his rake, hose or axe, His beet red face or ice covered mustache, You should know why he goes through that smoky front door, And is forced to crawl like a baby down on the floor. He does it to save both lives and property, All that is precious to you and to me. So take a good look at this modern warrior who serves his call proud and true, And know that he would die just to save me and you.
~ Robert J. Athans, unverified
You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.
~ Author Unknown
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~ Larry Brown, On Fire, 1993
Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity.
~ Author Unknown
We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.
~ T. De Witt Talmage, 1884
Wherever a man of vigour and stature manages to grow up, he is haled forthwith into the army. A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, 'ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.
~ Jack London
La posesión de un dios trae consigo el servicio.
~ Jack London
A sign on the wall read: "Please call our attention to your slightest dissatisfaction, whereupon the Chief Dietician will appear and explain in unforgettable terms the synergistic concepts behind her preparations, and make it clear why every mouthful must be carefully chewed and swallowed.
~ Jack Vance
Service always outranked wealth; loyalty always outranked payments.
~ Jack Weatherford
La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.
~ Jack Welch
When the Almighty grants anyone special talents and abilities, he or she is to use them for the service of G d. Each one must use his or her talents and aptitudes to help achieve the ultimate purpose and transform this world into a sanctuary, a fitting abode for G dliness.
~ Jacob Immanuel Schochet
It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.
~ Jacqueline Carey
My thanks, Master." He waved his hand. "It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.
~ Jacqueline Carey
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, How might I serve? If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
We are all apprentices, Maisie. Even when we think we've graduated to another rung on the ladder of experience, there is always much to learn. Every soul who comes to me for counsel gives me another lesson in return, and I am humbled and made new by each fresh opportunity to serve.
~ Jacqueline Winspear