One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.
I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.