Top 100 Quotes About Serving
#1. I always struggled with opening single-serving items such as bags of M&M's or condoms.
Penny Reid
#2. I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
Todd Tiahrt
#3. I'm just an ordinary girl. An ordinary girl serving and extraordinary God.
Katie J. Davis
#4. We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
Ani DiFranco
#5. I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.
Hilda Solis
#6. The strain of Christian service can result in sickness ... I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.
Billy Graham
#7. The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh
#8. Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.
George R R Martin
#9. By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.
Ram Dass
#10. This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist - and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.
Terry McDonell
#11. Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It
Barry Eisler
#12. Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them.
Cressida
Stuart Hill
#13. It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.
Noam Chomsky
#14. Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Is there ever anything safe about serving the Lord with one's whole heart?
Jody Hedlund
#16. I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.
Jessica Biel
#17. We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
Frans De Waal
#18. We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life's tragic beauty.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks
#20. Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
#21. There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
Tim Scott
#22. The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it.
Robin S. Sharma
#23. The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.
Michael Franti
#24. I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.
Norma McCorvey
#25. The easiest and shortest way to God -realization is through the contact of a Sadguru , which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.
Meher Baba
#26. Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.
Rick Remender
#27. Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge
#28. I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.
George W. Bush
#29. I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
Chad Harbach
#30. No more have I," said Mr. Bennet; "and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.
Jane Austen
#31. It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.
Kathy Bates
#32. A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.
Jim Webb
#34. Animal in man is the drive to concentrate on the satisfaction of needs; spiritual in man is the will to serve higher ends, and in serving ends he transcends his needs.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#35. You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom.
Sarah Noffke
#36. Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
#38. The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton
#39. We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore
#40. Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
Simon Mainwaring
#41. Alec put out his hand. "We're going to make it through this, but just in case ... " Mark shook the man's hand, squeezing it. "Thanks for the billion times you saved my life." "It's been an honor serving with you, kid. Maybe today you'll save mine a couple more times." "I'll do my best.
James Dashner
#42. We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them - giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men - as the Savior taught.
Claudio R.M. Costa
#43. Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?
Marie Corelli
#44. Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#45. We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#46. There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.
Phil Klay
#47. It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.
James N. Frey
#49. All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.
Vladimir Lenin
#50. We may call it "people pleasing," but it is entirely self-serving because it is really all about keeping myself comfortable. Boiled down, it could be more accurately called "me pleasing.
Emily P. Freeman
#51. The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
#52. When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.
Robert Fisk
#53. The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel
#54. There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Parker Palmer
#55. If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
Deborah Day
#56. Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.
Michael Neill
#57. Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.
Earl Nightingale
#58. Have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.
Elizabeth Berg
#59. ...relics and churches, paintings and sculptures and holy places, were all just tools, all serving the same purpose: to bring a seeking soul into awareness of the divine.
Sam Cabot
#60. In serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.
Carol Bellamy
#61. Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.
Mercedes Lackey
#62. Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.
Jonathan Lethem
#63. It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill
#64. For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
Chelsea Clinton
#65. Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#66. We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.
Brandon Sanderson
#67. [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
Georges Bataille
#68. As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest.
Tony Blair
#69. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.
John G. Miller
#70. The character for 'mob' is formed from the character for 'nobility' on one side and the character for 'sheep' on the other. So that's what a mob is, a herd of sheep that turns into a pack of wolves because they believe themselves to be serving a noble cause.
Ken Liu
#71. My name is Alex, and I'll be serving you tonight.
Penny Reid
#72. God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
George Barna
#73. But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
John Desmond Bernal
#74. One thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. It has been the greatest honor of my life.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#75. A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
George R R Martin
#76. David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.
Jonathan Yardley
#77. There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#78. If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.
Anonymous
#79. Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
#80. I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie Besant
#81. Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.
Larry Page
#82. I have no time for boiled sausages, or boiled vegetables of any nature really, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why anyone would still insist on serving dishes whose whole cooking process consisted of exposure to water, to freely invited guests.
Claire North
#83. Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.
Dave Camp
#84. Increasingly being used for routine duties such as conducting liquor inspections and serving warrants.
Anonymous
#85. Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.
Richard O'Connor
#86. We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.
Richard G. Scott
#87. Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.
Kinley MacGregor
#88. Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
Anthony Bourdain
#89. We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts.
Amanda Palmer
#91. Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
Charles Schumer
#92. We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.
Mercedes Lackey
#93. Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
Taya Kyle
#94. A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
Max Frisch
#95. Calcium Milligrams (per 100-gram serving) Butter 20 Whole milk 118 Chickpeas 150 Collard greens 203 Parsley 203 Soybeans 226 Almonds 234 Sesame seeds 1,160 Hijiki sea vegetable 1,400
Alicia Silverstone
#96. So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
Irvin D. Yalom
#97. Domestically challenged? No problem. "Sacrifice" - that's what joyfully serving entails.
Darlene Schacht
#98. Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
Jose Mujica
#99. My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.
Peter Roskam
#100. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
Mario Batali
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