Quotes About Service

One of the fondest expressions around is that [America] can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

American soldiers must know the reason for their sacrifices. Our GIs are not vassals or mercenaries. They are the nation's sons and daughters. We put their lives at risk only for worthy objectives. If the duty of the soldier is to risk his life, the responsibility of his leaders is not to spend that life in vain.

As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

We don't all have to be in the limelight to be reaching our potential,' Jack said, keeping his voice even. 'There's something to be said for raising a family and being part of my community.

Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?

What are you doing?" Kneeling before a goddess." I'm not a goddess." You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.

Make a career of humanity. Make it a central part of your life.

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

Do always, without thought of reward.

My life is a small sacrifice for the betterment of others and for the furtherance of humanity.

Oh, but I do, I do owe the world my All, and so, that is what I shall give it.

There will always be another person to help.

Those whom give their lives to the world are the best of peoples.

Until the day I die, I'll be here for all people's of this world and beyond.

Every service of God, established and chosen by people to merit justification and grace, without God's commandment, is wicked

A man whoTreats his betters as betters,Wears an air of respect,Who into serving father and motherKnows how to put his whole strength,Who in the service of his prince will lay down his life,Who in intercourse with friends is true to his word—others may say of him that he still lacks education, but I for my part should certainly call him an educated man.

Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —GEORGE ORWELL

About twenty-eight hundred dogs serve in the US military.

Spiritual Practices In Hindu myth, Hanuman, servant of the god Ram, tells Ram: "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you." Can you see the evolution of your soul through service? How can you be the change you long to see in the world?

I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life." ~Aunt Persis

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

She thrust out her arms wide, in strange ritual of triumph, as Mimi Brissard had in Paris. She was a black, ominous death-cross against the starlight for a moment. Then she turned slowly, her eyes two green phosphorescent pools, toward where the helpless secret service man lay. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.