Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation. — Margaret Chase Smith
Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. — Konosuke Matsushita
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. — Franklin Knight Lane
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. — Marian Wright Edleman
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy
Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe. — Michelle Obama
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. — Herbert Hoover
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. — Ludwig von Mises
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics. — James E. Grunig
There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service. — Condoleezza Rice
We are public servants. Like consumers, who come to us like kings. — Joko Widodo
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman
It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways. — Corazon Aquino
Short Public Service Quotes
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Albert Schweitzer
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali
Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country. — George Washington
To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Albert Schweitzer
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved. — Bernie Sanders
Top 10 Public Service Quotes
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. — Booker T. Washington
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone
I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people. — Joko Widodo
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. — Donald L. Carcieri
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand — Woodrow Wilson
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. — Charles W. Pickering
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. — Jim Rohn
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed. — Ray Kroc
Public Service Image Quotes
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Good Public Service Quotes
Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help. — Kirsten Gillibrand
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. — John Kenneth Galbraith
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. — Ralph Thomas Walker
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. — Alexis de Tocqueville
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship. — Sergei Lukyanenko
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts. — George Grosz
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious. — Nathan Hale
It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. — Warren Beatty
Public Servant Quotes
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. — Barbara Boxer
when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the
same. — John F. Kennedy
The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals. — Glenn Greenwald
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. — Claudia Johnson
People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!" — Doug Stanhope
... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office. — Frank Pavone
Leadership is service, not position.
My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward. — Marilyn Mosby
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. — Jesse Jackson
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important. — James McAvoy
As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others. — Charlamagne Tha God
Government Service Quotes
To ensure financial stability, we expect the provision of U.S. government securities settlement services to be robust in nearly all contingencies. — Jerome Powell
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S — Rosa DeLauro
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting. — Peter Drucker
The ultimate purpose of life is to be of service.
We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings. — George Galloway
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. — James Madison
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store. — Mark Steyn
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve. — James Cook
I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices. — Narendra Modi
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government. — Martin Van Buren
Public Sector Quotes
When we harness the power of both the public and private sectors, we can achieve truly incredible things. This is what we must do to get to net zero. — Larry Fink
There will be a fiscal adjustment of 5 points of GDP that will fall on the public sector. — Javier Milei
The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors. — Anthony Giddens
Leadership is service, not position.
We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion. — Manmohan Singh
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. — Rob McKenna
During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. — Lawrence R. Klein
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. — Lawrence Klein
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. — Henry Hazlitt
There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. — Carol Bellamy
Public Administration Quotes
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. — John Tyler
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty. — Robert Kagan
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. — Lord Acton
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal. — Ellen Tauscher
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs. — Samuel Adams
Let us not be a society where honest in public equals weird.
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. — Noah Webster
It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible! — Paul Volcker
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. — Mark Dayton
There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion. — Djemal Pasha
Public Office Quotes
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly. — John Knox
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. — George Bernard Shaw
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. — Jodi Rell
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. — H. L. Mencken
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. — George Ryan
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain. — Sheila Jackson Lee
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. — John Glenn
Community Service Quotes
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. — Dorothy Height
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning. — John Glenn
He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest — E. Urner Goodman
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch. — Robert Baden-Powell
My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community. — Rishi Sunak
I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service. — Emo Philips
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. — Eddie Bernice Johnson
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. — Rick Warren
Serving The Public Quotes
The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do. — Ken Salazar
I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public. — Frans de Waal
We will build the country of opportunities, one where all are equal before the law and where all the rules are honest and transparent, the same for everyone. And for that, we need people in power who will serve the people. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. — Thomas Frank
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. — James Cash Penney
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. — Ludwig von Mises
The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community. — Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn
I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive. — Jack Kelly
Public Life Quotes
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow. — Jane Jacobs
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. — Rosa Luxemburg
I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side... — Ned Kelly
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away. — Ned Kelly
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it. — Louis Armstrong
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. — Thomas Wolfe
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. — Robert McChesney
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights. — Hugo Chavez
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. — Robert Waterman McChesney
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions. — George Takei
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. — Milton Babbitt
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available. — Albert Einstein
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. — Aristophanes
When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers need. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need. — Joko Widodo
In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life. — Geert Wilders
We rise by lifting others. — Robert Green Ingersoll
We only have what we give. — Isabel Allende
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck. — Sophocles
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson
The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. — Malcolm Turnbull
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. — Louise Slaughter
We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money. — George Soros
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity. — Theodore Roosevelt
Give, but give until it hurts. — Mother Teresa
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. — Thomas Jefferson
I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life. — Wes Moore
Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know. — Michelle Rhee
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand. — Moshe Dayan
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. — Leslie Stephen
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