I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerWe give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.
Michelle ObamaEvery man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann HesseThe men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy GrahamThe devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe BidenNothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia WoolfIndifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. RowlingFor many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
Queen Elizabeth III have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.
AuroraHere at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe BidenI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthurYou aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne DyerTraditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Joyce MeyerLet us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother TeresaLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.
Russell M. NelsonThe challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen CoveyBeing acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick LamarWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
BuddhaNo matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
Jim MattisThere’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
Will RogersAmong us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.
Pope FrancisThe purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai LamaThe Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.
Jim MattisPassion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonEverybody has a purpose.
Dolly PartonWe are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph AddisonI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthurI’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.
Stephen CurryWhen the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Stephen CoveyAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin FranklinService which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma GandhiWhat humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya AngelouUse power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. BushThe most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill GatesMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David ThoreauI like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoTwo roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert FrostOrdinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
SocratesWhat I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
David BowieThe gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
PlatoWhatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Jimmy CarterAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoI resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.
Robert KiyosakiThe least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise PascalScientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert OppenheimerThis is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia WoolfThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark TwainAll missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.
Russell M. NelsonFor whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.
Jim MattisI believe that one person can make a difference.
Greta ThunbergEvery man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Pope FrancisWe shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston ChurchillIn politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamWell-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill GatesThe names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Nelson Mandela