Chiranjeevi Quotes

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

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.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

We want to bring back to Washington people who are more interested in public service than they are in private gain.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.

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

The leader is supposed to represent the community, the public good. He's supposed to be the focal point and the guide and the inspiration, and to represent a concern for the public good. The trouble is, the tragic problem is, very often, when you are a leader and pursue the public good, it may be at the expense of your private interests in a very drastic way

We are here to serve our citizens and not our ambitions.

A good subject makes it his rule to prefer the public welfare to everything else, bravely to sacrifice his fortune, and his private interests, and even his life, for the preservation of the state; and to employ all his abilities and his industry to advance the honor, and to procure the advantage of his native country.

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.