A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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 FrancisService of any type requires preparation.
Russell M. NelsonThe gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
PlatoIf you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin FranklinYou know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
BonoI’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
Narendra ModiThe only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerOur love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
Michelle ObamaWe 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 ObamaWhether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.
Russell M. NelsonThe high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert EinsteinWorking with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.
Michelle ObamaTherefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth IIIt has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon HillTo give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas AdamsWhat 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 AngelouIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac NewtonAs a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.
Mr. TMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice WalkerEvery 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 FrancisA company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
Elon MuskWe’re running the company to serve more people.
Mark ZuckerbergThe 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 MandelaGod spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Florence NightingaleThere is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHere 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 BidenMission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.
Russell M. NelsonWealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry FordWhat pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph AddisonI 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.
Queen Elizabeth IIOver the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
Kamala HarrisThe decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Russell M. NelsonI 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 SchweitzerNothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George WashingtonThe sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. EisenhowerService 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 GandhiI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthurThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma GandhiIn this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.
Russell M. NelsonA business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry FordUse 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. BushWikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.
Noam ChomskyIf a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. MenckenTo Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.
Jim MattisSome people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.
Ronald ReaganI have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth IIThis Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. RockefellerThe next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis PresleyI haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
Billy GrahamThat service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma GandhiAll missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.
Russell M. NelsonI doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
Russell M. NelsonThink of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.
Charles SpurgeonI strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Jeff BezosFor many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
Queen Elizabeth IIWe need more missionaries – more worthy missionaries.
Russell M. NelsonThe theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. MenckenPreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
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 Mattis