Service Quotes

"I pledge to dedicate everything I have to working for Japan and for the people."

"I am not a full-time politician but a 'sanyasi' who took the path of politics to serve the masses."

"There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand."

"As far as I am concerned, my state is my priority."

"I knew that to live a fulfilling life I had to live a purposeful life; a life of service."

"When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community."

"Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women."

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

"This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

Joseph Campbell

"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."

Clara Barton

"In our youths our hearts were touched with fire."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

Arthur Ashe

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."

Joseph Addison

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

Clara Barton

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press."

Charles M. Province

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

Muhammad Ali

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country."

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Florence Nightingale

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter U.S... there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."

Frederick Douglass