Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

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Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

—Daniel Berrigan

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Excuse me, sir; I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render.

—Robert E. Lee, explaining his rejection of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year salary to act as titular head of an insurance company after the Civil War

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Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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