Service Quotes

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

My parents actually wanted me to join the service.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.