Quotes About Service

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

A great man is made so for others.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Man cannot choose his duties.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

Prayer alone can do a lot of good for the people you pray for. Beyond that, it's not necessary to try to help the whole world. Concentrate on your own circle of companions who need you. Then, whatever you do will be of greater benefit.

The Lord has no body now on earth but yours, no hands now but yours, no feet now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which His compassion looks out to the world. Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless His people.

the Lord knows everyone as he really is and gives each his work to do -- according to what He sees to be most fitting for his soul, and for His own Self, and for the good of his neighbor.

Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be.