The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
John Adams

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise Pascal

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer