Quotes About Service

Pour, varlet, pour the water The water steaming hot! A spoonful for each man of us Another for the pot!

If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.

privilege is founded on duty, and if the horse carries the man, the animal is fed before the rider himself doth eat. Thus in certain respects the first comes last, and the greatest king is the loneliest.

God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding.

The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

God the Son, by being truly human without ceasing to be truly God, is both equal to the Father and less than the Father—equal by nature and less by volition to service. By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Guilt, therefore, I do not acknowledge: and, if I did, it is possible that I might still resolve on the present act of confession, in consideration of the service which I may thereby render to the whole class of opium-eaters.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

For me, if I wasn't going to get a full scholarship to go to school, I was going to go to the Army or Navy so I could avoid debt.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.

We were rugged individualists in the Navy, but we all had health care.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.