Serving Quotes

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

I like serving America.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.