Quotes About Service

Of the eight, seven had served in the war. Two had medals to show for it, including Smith, awarded a Silver Star for carrying two badly burned fellow soldiers out of a demolished tank and through hostile fire. Six had attended college and four, including Boggs, had diplomas (a graduation rate exponentially higher than the white cops').

Amor est mihi causa sequendi - I serve because I love.

The world is my country, mankind are my friends, to do good is my religion.

Those who live always in houses can find many ways to keep themselves warm, but it is a shame and a sin to suffer a soldier in the field to want a blanket while there is one in the country.

Though age will naturally exempt a person from personal service, it cannot exempt him from his share of the charge, because the men are raised for the defence of property and liberty jointly.

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.

The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.

A Christian is commanded to warm-hearted service; he must charge through the whole army of his lusts, every one of which is stronger than Goliath.

The more work we do for God, the more willing we shall be to die, and the sweater death will be.

Let us show ourselves godly by being more spiritual in duty. It is not the quantity, but the quality which God is concerned with. It is not how much we do but how well.

It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.

A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.

cuando la gracia entra en el corazón, oh qué cambio está ahí! Prepondera la gracia, se presenta frente a la rebelión de la voluntad- hace a un hombre de otro espíritu! convierte el furor de león, en una dulzura de paloma! cambia el odio en delicia! pone un nuevo sesgo en la voluntad! Actúa una espontaneidad y la alegría en servicio de Dios. "tu pueblo será un pueblo dispuesto en el día de tu poder," Salmo 110.8.

None ever complained of serving God: it was their comfort and their crown on their death-bed.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

In love's service, only the wounded soldier can serve.

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

We can look at our work as service to society and as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves by interacting with others. Our work will thus become an occasion to practice the teachings that we meditate on.

To make our life meaningful, we have to do meaningful actions.

Benefiting other sentient beings doesn't mean causing them only temporary physical and mental happiness in this life.

He had used it as the epigram to his 1967 book 'To Seek a Newer World,' and it expressed two pillars of his faith: that everyone has a duty to alleviate suffering, and that no one can live a fully happy life while surrounded by the unaddressed misery of others.