service quotes

• Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. (Jonathan Swift) [mankind/more/service/politicians]
• My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential. (Herbert Hoover) [chance/action/service/land]
• The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway. (Frank Zappa) [people/service]
• Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything. (Laurence Olivier) [life/point/service]
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. (Douglas Adams) [give/service/money/honesty]
• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? (John Adams) [service/mankind]
• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. (Giovanni Boccaccio) [men/service]
• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. (Omar Nelson Bradley) [service]
• Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way. (Luther Burbank) [future/truth/service]
• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. (Samuel Butler) [service/press/people/approach]
• Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. (Shirley Chisholm) [service]
• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. (Marian Wright Edelman) [service/being/life/time]
• The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. (Albert Einstein) [men/women/service]
• Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. (Albert Einstein) [life/service]
• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. (Henry Ford) [business/service/willpower/worry]
• Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. (Robert Frost) [service]
• A small demerit extinguishes a long service. (Thomas Fuller) [service]
• Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. (Mahatma Gandhi) [service/habit/service/desire]
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi) [find/service]
• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [promises/service]
• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service. (Oliver Goldsmith) [reputation/provide/service]
• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. (Georg Hegel) [courage/service/state/thing]
• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life. (Henry James) [devotion/church/service/literature]
• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. (John F. Kennedy) [service]
• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Jim Rohn) [service/greatness/wealth/reputation]
• Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera. (Jim Rohn) [service/respect]
• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. (Albert Schweitzer) [religion/human/service]
• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (George Bernard Shaw) [service/courage]
• How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service. (Sydney Smith) [willpower/service]
• A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service. (Henry David Thoreau) [recognition/love/service]
• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being. (Lech Walesa) [thing/change/service/human]

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