Quotes About Service

6. 2 Corinthians 5:15—"No longer live for themselves." "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians--they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?

great leaders do not set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It is never about the role- it is always about the goal

He understood that being of service to others takes you out of the smallness of your own issues and into the bigger realm of the heart.

Well Just let me know cause its my mission in life to be your bitch - Montoya

He was being called on to be a man, called up for service almost, except his country didnt need him, his lover did, and he felt proud and strong and ready to do whatever was necessary.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

Airbnb is a company with values around hospitality.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

You can be in a nonprofit organization. You can serve your fellow man in a variety of other ways. You don't necessarily have to win political office.

I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.

I've worked on a variety of campaigns and fought for a variety of conservative causes for a long time. But it wasn't until I came back from my military service that I realized I needed to devote myself to others.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.