- Nov 07, 2020
Service Quotes
On service, duty, and the trust it depends on.
Some quotes here treat service as an academic or civic duty - sociology existing to protect individual freedom, classical language once required for public documents - while another simply credits good service for winning loyal customers. Education covers the more institutional side.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
- Humanitarian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought... I just... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?'
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020