Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

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

Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

The reward of service is more service.

People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others.

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.