John McCain Quotes

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind should we serve?

Service to others is the rent you pay for space on earth.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

No definition of a quality life does not include service to others.

Service is that which is done for love's sake for another. It is not true service which is paid with wages

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

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

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

I resolve in future to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself.

Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great. Because greatness is a matter of service.

Those of us who get a chance, and many of us will, should and will be motivated to serve America well.

We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

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

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

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.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

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

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.