|
|
| Quote for category - service |
|
|
|
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- in service
|
|
|
|
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog
uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- in service
|
|
|
|
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those
who have sought and found how to serve.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- in service
|
|
|
|
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is
no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
- in service
|
|
|
|
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach
wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
- in service
|
|
|
|
It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate
words, but compassionate action.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a
matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are
moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
- in service
|
|
|
|
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a
by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
- in service
|
|
|
|
I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and
that I think is profoundly important.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at
some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the
approval of their own conscience.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the
needs of others.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will
be provided for by this wisdom.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make
your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- in service
|
|
|
|
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
- in service
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
