Public Service Quotes

• Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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• There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Challenges, Honor, Greater

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivation, Helping Others, Community

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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  Jacob Lew

  Thinking, Careers, Differences

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

  Booker T. Washington

  Happiness, Helping Others, Compassion

  Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Sports, Spiritual

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

  Jack Abramoff

  Choices, Ifs

  "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. May 30, 2012.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Roots, America

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• Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Interesting, Challenges, May

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

  Jesse Jackson

  Perfect, Trying, Judged

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• The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

  Ray Kroc

  Helping Others, Succeed, Helping

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• We rise by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Helping Others, Society, Lifting Others

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• I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Way To Live, Proud, Enterprise

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Leadership, Life Lesson, Helping Others

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

  Samuel Alito

  Careers, Honor

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Careers, Community Service, Helping

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