Public Service Quotes - Page 2

• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

  Confucius

  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Littles, Helping

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• We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Spiritual Vision

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• I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

  Anthony Foxx

  Morning, Thinking, Long

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• Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Helping Others, Luck

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

  Gordon Brown

  Vision, Citizens, Way

  Gordon Brown (2006). “Speeches, 1997-2006”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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  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 will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

  Henry Hampton

  Impact, People, Way

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• To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Wisdom, Helping Others

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• Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Leadership, Wisdom

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Citizens, Citizenship

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Thoughtful, People, Citizens

  State of the State address, www.latimes.com.

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• A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

  Richardson Wright

  Friendship, Men, Garden

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• I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

  Wes Moore

  Way, Needs, Occupation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Inspiration, Government

  FaceBook post by Governor Andrew Cuomo from Nov 08, 2016

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• There is no higher religion than human service.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Community Service, Helping, Good Service

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• To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Humble, Helping Others

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• If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Thinking, Helping Others

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• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

  Leslie Stephen

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

  Leslie Stephen (1893). “An Agnostic's Apology”

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  Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

  Barry Goldwater

  Opportunity, Men, Long

  Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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• Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

  Aristophanes

  Long, People, Justice

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.35, Sparklesoup LLC

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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