Quotes About Service

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.