Servant famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
-- Alan Hirsch -
I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
-- Alben W. Barkley -
Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.
-- Alex Ferguson -
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
-- Amory Lovins -
The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially.
-- Andy Albright -
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.
-- Aravind Adiga -
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
-- Billy Graham -
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
-- Charles Hermite -
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 -
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
-- Dallas Willard -
How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
-- Dawson Trotman -
Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
-- Fanny Kemble -
The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.
-- Fred Shuttlesworth -
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
-- George Mason -
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
-- Hattie McDaniel -
When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
-- Henry Howarth Bashford -
God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
-- Ignatius Loyola -
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
-- Jacques Ellul -
Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.
-- James Hunter -
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.
-- Janette Oke -
The servants must wait like ninjas for me to leave so they could render this place spotless again.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
-- Jef Raskin -
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
-- Jeffrey Bernard -
When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
-- John C. Danforth -
As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
-- John Owen -
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
-- John the Apostle -
We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.
-- Joseph Boyden -
If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
Good servants frequently make good masters.
-- Jupiter Hammon -
The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.
-- Leila Aboulela -
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.
-- Luke the Evangelist -
I can be a champion and a public servant also.
-- Manny Pacquiao -
If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.
-- Michael Bassey -
West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.
-- Mithun Chakraborty -
We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss -
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
-- Norodom Sihamoni -
The best servant does his work unseen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
-- Paul Scott -
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
-- Plato -
If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
Serve, serve, serve. Â Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
-- Sargent Shriver -
It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
-- Sargent Shriver -
I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
-- Scott McClellan -
To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
-- Tony Hsieh -
A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.
-- Wayne Mack -
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
-- Wellington Mara -
You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.
-- William J. Clinton -
There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.
-- William Jenkyn -
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
-- Yuri Milner -
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-- Edna O'Brien -
The best servant does his work unseen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
In Cree, an oskâpêwis is a servant or a helper, someone who hauls in rocks for sweats, or pipes or medicines. I equate that to leadership. You're a servant or helper of people.
-- Perry Bellegarde -
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
-- Adlai Stevenson I -
Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.
-- Andrew of Crete -
Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
-- Bill Johnson
