Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

Reason is the servant of instinct.

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

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

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

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

The best servant does his work unseen.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

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

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

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

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

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

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Words are good servants but bad masters.

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

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

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.

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!

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.

Anger should be your servant, not your master

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend but a mistress, and a family that wasn’t but people who owned her and ordered her about, and nothing at all but her pretty breasts and her round bottom and her misbehaving hair to help her feel any different.

A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

A servant of the Lord , loves God.

A true leader is a servant.

A true Christian and true servant of God serves God and not man

But as I say, if you look to the state of their souls you’ll find the situation nowhere near as grave as polls suggest. There’s more to being a servant of The Adversary than signing up.

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.

Business is boss, politics is servant.

-Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. You thus employ'd, I will go root away The noisome weeds, which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. +Servant: Why should we in the compass of a pale Keep law and form and due proportion, Showing, as in a model, our firm estate, When our sea-walled garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd, Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs Swarming with caterpillars? -Gardener: Hold thy peace! He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf.,,

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.