Serving Quotes - Page 36

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

  Doris Grumbach

  Giving, Creative, Promise

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

  Louie Giglio

  War, Men, Garden

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• I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Texas

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Community, What If

  Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler (2007). “The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Office

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• All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mistake, Marijuana, Law

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.215, The New Press

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• The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

  Stewart Udall

  Country, Father, Opportunity

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  We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, People

  "25 million of us buy his skinny lattes every week" by John Carlin, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2003.

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• Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1953). “Assignment in Eternity”

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• That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Past, Leader

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• We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

  Cyril Connolly

  Self, Jail, Dungeons

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• We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Political, Special

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• No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.

  Barbara Rose

  Uplifting, Writing, Light

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• If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Justice, Form, Should

  "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

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• There is no finer way to demonstrate love of God than by serving Him in the positions to which we may be called. Occasionally, the reward for that service will be prompt, and we'll see the light in the eyes of the person whom we have helped. Other times, however, the Lord will let us wait a little while and let our reward come another way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Eye, Light, Waiting

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  John Robbins

  Animal, Self, Civilization

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.38, H J Kramer

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• 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.

  Cindy McCain

  Military, Son, Soldier

  Cindy McCain @cindymccain, twitter.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

  George Barna

  Art, Son, People

  George Barna (2006). “A Fish Out of Water: 9 Strategies to Maximize Your God-Given Leadership Potential”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

  Michael Neill

  Inspiring, Art, Want

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• When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Blessing, Light, Perfect

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• Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Country, Home, Self

  "You Are an American". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

  Brian Houston

  Goal, Leader, Contagious

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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• I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

  Angel Grant

  Thinking, People, Pieces

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• One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

  John Wesley

  Eye, Done, Invisible

  John Wesley (1872). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author”, p.440

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