Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

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.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

The best servant does his work unseen.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

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.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

All are bound to serve and obey, but few are aware, it all depends on how high in the hierarchy you are determined to aim.

Anger should be your servant, not your master