John Dryden Quotes

We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.