Servant Quotes

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, Fire, Reason

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

Fight, Country, Moment

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi

Before, Joy, Service

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Wife, Mistress, Memory

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Yourself, Faithful, Serve

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

Family, Children, Parents

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs

Next, Perfection, Computer

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

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela

Humble, Before, Here

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar

Great, Society, Different

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson

God, Best, Perfect

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

Reality, Leader, Between

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Become, Order, Master

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

Hell, Devil, Highest

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

Education, Good, True

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller

Art, Sometimes, Blind

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak

Joy, Become, Lord

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve

Education, Enough, Gentleman

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

God, Failure, Live

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes, Blind, Master

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg

Good, God, Husband

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

God, Care, Please

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum

Life, Money, Fire

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard

Self, Himself, Fit

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

Wisdom, Technology, May

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin

Truth, Away, Devil

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson

Good, Humble, Lord

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
Doris Lessing

Married, Red, Civil

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