Quotes About Service

There is no exercise better for the improvement of our world than reaching down on a daily basis to lift someone up.

A man should act not for himself but be ready to lend a helping hand to others in their need.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

A teacher's profession is the one true profession which asks for nothing in return, but only gives, and gives till the very end.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Happy Veterans Day to those that fought for our FREEDOM! Our freedom of speech and our freedom to protest all inequalities and injustices.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'Id like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

In those days they didn't enforce the laws. We were the people you don't always see, flashing our polite smiles, trimming hedges, parking your cars in lots, doing the night shift. You needed us and we needed you.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.

endured—how I endured!—for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling

maid, then chambermaid, then housemaid, then chief housemaid

You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest.