Quotes About Service

Measure your day by the love you are giving away.

Be selfless to be helpful.

we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.