Quotes About Service

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Be like Jesus. Live love, speak love, think love…..do all things in love.

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.