Serve Quotes

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.

Life, Respect, Matter

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

Destiny, Rather, High

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

Good, Men, Teacher

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

Thoughts, Show, Books

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

Yourself, Faithful, Servant

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

Great, War, Alone

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

Self, Few, Wants

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

Good, Evil, Either

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

Life, Live, Spiritual

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

Men, Respect, Learning

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack Obama

Home, Care, Fight

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

God, Nothing, Small

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Help, Human

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

Care, Enemy, Give

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Beautiful, Mind

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

Happy, Destiny, Found

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

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Mitt Romney

Love, Government, Children

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Long, Friend

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Thought, Find

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen

Morning, Big, Off

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan

Good, Hope, Humble

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Jack Kingston

Love, Experience, Society

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

Life, Humanity, Meaning

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Wisdom, Motto

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

Happy, Found, Among

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley

Him, Become, Sense

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

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary Clinton

Greatest, Sense, Dream

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