Quotes About Service

I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.

For a while I considered dropping out of Barnard to help. It felt unbearably selfish, just downright wrong, to be indulging myself with

What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that taught him universal techniques, directly at the service of the masses. Intellectuals must learn to understand the universal that the masses want, in reality, in the immediate, at this very moment.

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

I love the military. They don't get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.