Top 1200 Lip Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art... If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

I like to say I bring the perspective of a kid from Bowmanville... but I understand military service and uniformed service.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

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.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Our job is we work for the artist and we service the artists fans. And the better service and the better company we can provide for the artist, the better job we can do for the fans, from flexibility in selling to lower service fees.

I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

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.

Corrupt bureaucrats and cops ought to dismissed or compulsorily retired from service, as they are a drain on the service. Their performance must be vigorously assessed.

I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's what inspired me to work in public service.

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

I'm a very generous tipper for my hairdresser and nail technician, and for staff in restaurants who have given a good service. I will always leave a tip, even for bad service.

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

In my opinion, being able to do some form of service is a gift. The one that provides the service is the greatest beneficiary - I will attest to it.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.