QUOTES FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

“Public service is not just a job, it’s a noble calling.” – Margaret Spellings

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” – Muhammad Ali

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” – Albert Einstein

“The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.” – Laurence Leamer

“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 have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer

“He who serves others is of the greatest importance, he who serves himself is of the least.” – José Martí

“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t wait for opportunities to come knocking on your door, go out there and create them.” – Unknown HOW DO YOU CITE A QUOTE IN A BOOK

“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” – Buddhist proverb

“The world is a better place when we all lend a helping hand.” – Unknown

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

“The world is not just a charity, it’s a duty.” – Unknown

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

“Service is the rent we pay for living, the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.” – Marian Wright Edelman

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of good deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again…who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” – Theodore Roosevelt