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"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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"Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man." »Mary Lyon
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"A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind." »Richard Hofstadter
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"Life is a progress, and not a station." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust
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"Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." »Margaret Lee Runbeck
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"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." »Joey Bishop
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors." »Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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"While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives." »Goldsmith
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves." »U Thant
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly." »Goethe
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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"As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man." »George Washington
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"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan
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"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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