Service Motivation Quotes

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

There's never been a sense of public service about Donald Trump.

Both of my children - my daughter Caroline, a public school teacher, and my son Elliot, an Army Ranger - are dedicating their lives to public service; thus, they have inspired my own decision to run for Congress.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

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

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.