Quotes About Service

Leadership is service to others.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It's a loss to our organizations, of course, it's a loss to our community, and most importantly, it's a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

We play politics for the good of our people.

I want to show my children the importance of donating our time and energy to help those in need.

Justice Ginsburg devoted her life to the law, becoming one of the most respected and influential woman in our time. I appreciate her dedication and service to the nation.