Service Quotes

My father was a picture of courage in terms of his war service and strength, and yet in his decline, I learned primarily negative lessons. I learned what not to do.

Bill de Blasio
- War
- Father
- Picture
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.

Claude C. Hopkins
- People
- Remember
- Selfish

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'

David McFadden
- Country
- Real
- Service
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

David Elkind
- People
- Life
- Good
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

Walter Cronkite
- Pretty
- Man
- Fast
There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

John Singleton
- Up
- Guy
- Career
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

Bernie Sanders
- Time
- Service
Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

Colin Farrell