Quotes About Service

A person who lives only for himself destroys himself.

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to for the greater good.

Of all the Winter Service Industries, the Winter Consul was the most dangerous. Few who joined expected to last out the decade, yet recruitment was never much of a problem. You didn't find the job, they said, it found you. No-one ever who entered the Winter voluntarily wasn't trying to leave something behind.

Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that—a hope—as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

It has been long proved that everyone needs a butler.

The most decorated service rabbit in history was RAF Navigation Officer Danielle 'Thumper' Rabbit, who ejected from a Tornado over Iraq when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile. She wrote about her time as a POW in Bouncing Out of Tikrit, and it was quite a good read, although critics did find fault with the overlong detail of Iraqi salad in the latter part of the book.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

A cross-sell is introducing to the client an additional product or service that will add or increase the result of their transaction with you or your company. Your

the key to rapid success as a preeminent business is to fall in love with your clients.

Customer: A person who purchases a commodity or service. Client: A person who is under the protection of another.   The

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

What do women look for when selecting a service station? Right, clean rest rooms.

It costs six times more to sell a product or a service to a new customer than it does to an existing customer.

John F. Kennedy deployed a chiasmus during his inaugural address—"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"—and thousands joined the Peace Corps.

They also serve who only sit and wait

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.

Résumons en quatre mots le pacte social des deux états. Vous avez besoin de moi, car je suis riche et vous êtes pauvre ; faisons donc un accord entre nous : je permettrai que vous ayez l'honneur de me servir, à condition que vous me donnerez le peu qui vous reste pour la peine que je prendrai de vous commander.

A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.

Gli animali che voi mangiate non sono quelli che ne divorano altri; voi non mangiate gli animali carnivori, bensì li utilizzate come modelli. Voi siete affamati unicamente delle creature dolci e gentili che non fanno alcun male a nessuno, che vi seguono, che vi servono, e che sono da voi divorate quale ricompensa ai servigi che vi rendono