Servant quotes

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

#People #Decision #Servant

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
-- Alan Hirsch

#World #Demand #Servant

I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
-- Alben W. Barkley

#House #Lord #Servant

Words are good servants but bad masters.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Masters #Servant

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

#Player #Thinking #Servant

Leadership is about being a servant first.
-- Allen West

#Firsts #Servant

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
-- Amory Lovins

#Masters #Servant

The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially.
-- Andy Albright

#Heart #Way #Servant

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Trustworthiness #Economy #Servant

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

#Sovereign #Free Will #Servant

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Inspiration #Discipline #Servant

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Government #People #Servant

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
-- Billy Graham

#Succeed #Helping #Servant

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
-- Charles Hermite

#Mathematics #Masters #Servant

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

#People #Way #Servant

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
-- Dallas Willard

#Feelings #Masters #Servant

How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
-- Dawson Trotman

#Treats #Servant

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer

#Giving #Eternity #Servant

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#Government #Servant #Jokes

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
-- Eugene Jarecki

#Ends #Pros And Cons #Servant

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

#Worst #Servant #Discomfort

Money is a great servant but a bad master.
-- Francis Bacon

#Money #Masters #Servant

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.
-- Fred Shuttlesworth

#Doe #Servant

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

#People #Servant #All Time

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
-- Gretchen Rubin

#Money #Masters #Servant

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Choices #Week #Servant

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#God #Servant

After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
-- Henry Howarth Bashford

#Physicians #Spite #Servant

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Stars #Servant

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
-- Ignatius Loyola

#Half #Illness #Servant

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
-- Jackie Kennedy

#Care #Dear God #Servant

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

#Technique #Individual #Servant

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

#Leader #Servant Leadership #Servant

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

#Freedom #Being Free #Servant

The servants must wait like ninjas for me to leave so they could render this place spotless again.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Waiting #Ninja #Servant

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

#Computer #Servant

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
-- Jeffrey Bernard

#Lying #Champagne #Servant

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

#Vests #Opinion #Servant

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Increase #Servant

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

#Christ #Servant #Disciple

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

#Jesus #Lord #Servant

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.
-- Joseph Boyden

#Earth #Masters #Servant

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

#Temples #Christ #Servant

Civil servants take forever to do anything.
-- Joseph Wambaugh

#Hippie #Forever #Servant

Echo is a servant of the Nightray house.
-- Jun Mochizuki

#Echoes #House #Servant

Good servants frequently make good masters.
-- Jupiter Hammon

#Masters #Servant

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
-- Juvenal

#Tongue #Worst #Servant

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

#Giving #Waiting #Servant

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.
-- Luke the Evangelist

#Catholic #Done #Servant

I can be a champion and a public servant also.
-- Manny Pacquiao

#Champion #Servant

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.
-- Michael Bassey

#Masters #Servant

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.
-- Mithun Chakraborty

#Servant

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

#Jesus #Calling #Servant

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
-- Norodom Sihamoni

#Faithful #Loyal #Servant

The best servant does his work unseen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Unseen #Doe #Servant

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
-- Paul Scott

#Gossip #Population #Servant

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
-- Plato

#Plato #Masters #Servant

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

#Powerful #Grace #Servant

Serve, serve, serve.  Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
-- Sargent Shriver

#Ends #Servant

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
-- Sargent Shriver

#Servant

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

#Kind #Servant #Wanted

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Inspiration #Servant

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
-- Swami Vivekananda

#Servant #Internals #Universe

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

#Leader #Servant Leadership #Servant

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

#Heart #Leader #Servant

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
-- Wellington Mara

#Self #Servant #Justification

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.
-- William J. Clinton

#Servant #Elected Officials

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.
-- William Jenkyn

#Hypocrite #Lips #Servant

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
-- Yuri Milner

#Trying #Interest #Servant

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-- Edna O'Brien

#Servant #Recollection #I Can

The best servant does his work unseen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Unseen #Doe #Servant

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

#People #Servant #Pipe

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
-- Roger L'Estrange

#Evil #Helping #Servant

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
-- Adlai Stevenson I

#Apathy #Indifference #Servant

Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.
-- Andrew of Crete

#Salvation #Mary #Servant

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
-- Bill Johnson

#Kings #Heart #Servant

I remain God's humble servant.
-- Jonathan Cain

#Humble #Servant