Quotes About Service

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

What you must ask yourself, Tony dear, is this: do you do the work you've chosen with joy and gratitude? Do you do it conscientiously? Do you do it for others first and yourself second?

God's power, it turns out, comes in God's willingness to abdicate power. God saves the world through submission to the point of solidarity with human weakness. Jesus' final teaching to his disciples was to wash their feet and then tell them to go and do likewise, to act as servants to the world. Too often, Christians have done just the opposite.

it's possible to do the work of God without doing the work God has called you to do.

Para las personas que pasan sus vidas ayudando a la gente, el reto es valorar Igualmente sus propias necesidades para renovarse a sí mismas y poder servir a los otros con mayor eficacia

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

The only good leader is a reluctant one.

So often people think of sharing God's love by preaching or reading the Bible to someone. More often, we can show people Jesus by demonstrating kindness and love in practical ways.

If you can, you can then take risks without "violating" this carefully tended structure of meaning. You can put all of your life at stake, in the service of whatever "designated impossibility" is important to you, because you know all of your life, to date, is meaningless.

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

the church's fundamental task is to mediate God's presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens under God, serving God in God's mission. Our task is to represent

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

we should instead ask God to break our hearts with the things that break His.

More important though—live for others, just as much as for yourself. If you do that, their strength becomes, in some mysterious way, yours. There is always somebody, somewhere, who needs you. Never, for one minute, ever lose sight of that. If they are not with you, not near you now—go and find them, even if it means voyaging thousands of miles to do it.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

One 'take me, eat me' is worth a hundred thousand 'protect me, save me's'.

Clay would be just as happy if nobody ever noticed how wonderful he is. Then he could sleep and eat and take care of us instead of fighting. Starflight

There were more important things than becoming queen. Stopping

Uh," Six-Claws said. "My, um … my friend Dune helped, too." "Oh, yes?" said Char. "Would you like to join the army as well, dragonet?" "Yes, please, sir!" Dune said eagerly. "Hmmm. You're a bit young, but we can put you in basic training for now. I'll have you two assigned to the same battalion." Char nodded again, looking pleased with himself, and wandered away.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.