Top 1200 Years Of Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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.

Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

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

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

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

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?

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

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

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

Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.

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.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

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

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

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.

After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.

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

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.

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

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.

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who've been working there for years and years. They're making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits.

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

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.

During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving the Empire.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

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.

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

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

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?

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

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

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

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

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.

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.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

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.

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.

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

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

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

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

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