| "The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "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." »Benjamin Jowett |
| "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II |
| "The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve |
| "Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man." »George Washington |
| "Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero |
| "A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor |
| "How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh |
| "The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI |
| "The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality." »Sir Eric Ashby |
| "Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb |
| "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service." »Georges Pompidou |
| "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali |
| "The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." »Og Mandino |
| "The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell |
| "Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." »Mary McLeod Bethune |
| "I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan |
| "The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Serious Sincere Systematic service Surely Secures Supreme Success." »Unknown |
| "It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service." »Ulysses S. Grant |
| "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 |
| "Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service." »John Rocco Savalli |
| "Maybe the answer to Selective service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed." »Bill Vaughan |
| "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying." »Virginia |
| "I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought." »John Locke |
| "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." »John Quincy Adams |
| "On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford |
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