Top 10 Public Service Recognition Week Quotes

Public Service Recognition Week is a time to honor and appreciate the hard work and dedication of our public servants. Here are the top 99 quotes to inspire and celebrate our public servants:

1. “Public service is not just a job, it is an opportunity to make a difference in the world.” – Hillary Clinton
2. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “The function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or cannot be done as well, by individuals, and that the people, in their individual capacities, cannot afford to do.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
4. “We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law, and in the councils of government.” – John F. Kennedy
5. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
7. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali
8. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
9. “There is no greater calling than public service.” – Sonny Perdue
10. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’” – Charles Dickens

Top 20 Public Service Recognition Week Quotes

11. “To serve the people is the most sacred duty and the most honorable work.” – Tsai Ing-wen
12. “The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time.” – Barack Obama
13. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
14. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
15. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
16. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
17. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius
18. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
19. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
20. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
21. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
22. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
24. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
25. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
26. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
27. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
28. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
29. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
30. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

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31. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
32. “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
33. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
34. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
35. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
36. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow
37. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
38. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
40. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
41. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
43. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
44. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
45. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
46. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
47. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Albert Einstein
48. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
49. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
50. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
51. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
52. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
53. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
54. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
55. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
56. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
57. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
58. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius
59. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

Top 39 Public Service Recognition Week Quotes

61. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” – Abraham Lincoln
62. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
63. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
64. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
65. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
66. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
67. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
68. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
69. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
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