#service

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#service #volunteerism #life

Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer. Even the people you're paid to shoot at? Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service. -Captain Kevyn Andreyasn & General Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#customer-service #mercenaries #money #sci-fi #violence

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#both #choice #cuts #drastic #education

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#both #come #community #day-to-day #disorders

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#community #education #fit #future #into

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#experience

I am providing a service that many people obviously value. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#i #i am #many #obviously #people

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#honorable #i #i think #inculcated #me

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#delivered #electricity #ever #homes #makes