Quotes About Service And Character

#1. Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

William Arthur Ward

#2. I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

Harrison Ford

#3. Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.

Billy Graham

#4. Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.

Joe Nichols

#5. The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Ulysses S. Grant

#6. The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

Sathya Sai Baba

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

Peter Jennings

#8. My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,
renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

Swami Vivekananda

#9. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Elliott Abrams

#10. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

J. Michael Straczynski

#11. True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Fielding H. Yost

#12. We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them ... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

George W. Bush

#13. I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#14. I only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.

Richard Madden

#15. EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

GE Paulus

#16. We can use marriage for the same purpose - to grow in our service, obedience, character, pursuit, and love of God.

Gary L. Thomas

#17. Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What

Dallas Willard

#18. Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Jeremy Collier

#19. Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps ... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Leon Trotsky

#20. As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

Alice McDermott

#21. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

D. Todd Christofferson

#22. I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

Lusia Strus

#23. Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

Arthur Carhart

#24. Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#25. I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.

Jeremy Shockey

#26. Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

ElRay L. Christiansen

#27. I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Alan Redpath

#28. Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Marian Wright Edelman

#29. Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

Florence Nightingale

#31. A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

Charles Brent

#32. Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

William Golding