Top 100 A Servant Quotes
#1. Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.
Tommy Tenney
#2. I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. They've pulled me inside out, swapping Mare for Mareena, a thief for a crown, rags for silk, Red for Silver. This morning I was a servant, tonight I'm a princess. How much more will change? What else will I lose?
Victoria Aveyard
#4. I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
James K. Polk
#5. 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
#6. Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.
Elizabeth George
#7. A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant's heart.
Jim George
#9. I will not work with a slave as an equal nor will I share a servant with him. (Valerius)
Trust me, boy, we're not equal. You're so far beneath me that I would sooner sit in shit than let you wipe my ass. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#12. Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.
Kevin Leman
#13. Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant.
Jen Hatmaker
#14. Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life.
Guru Gobind Singh
#15. For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.
John Sung
#16. Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday
#17. This morning I was a servant, tonight I'm a princess. How much more will change?
Victoria Aveyard
#18. I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.
Maya Moore
#19. Seek to be served, and you become a servant.
Seek to serve others, and you become a master.
Donald L. Hicks
#20. A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
Claudio Hummes
#21. It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
Ken Blanchard
#22. We practice mastering ourselves in the moment so that we can better open ourselves to being a servant leader and to harness our emotions and choose what to do with our reactions.
Lyssa Adkins
#25. 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
#27. Being attracted to someone plays a big part, but there's also so much more than that for me. It's about finding someone sweet and kind - and that has a servant's heart.
Tim Tebow
#28. A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
George Muller
#29. Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.
Michael Swanwick
#30. Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. Learn to rule your face.
George R R Martin
#31. The spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child. This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child
C. G. Jung
#32. Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
Bill Johnson
#33. How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
Dawson Trotman
#34. He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
Anton Chekhov
#35. You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that
"
"You're the other half of me." (Again The Magic)
Lisa Kleypas
#36. I am not a woman, I am a thing. An object, a servant for their needs. Sex is a tool.
Jasinda Wilder
#38. A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.
Richard Baxter
#39. The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
Peter Drucker
#40. True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.
Bill Gothard
#41. To show that the creature cannot be so low but there is somewhat in God above the misery of the creature, his mercy shall triumph over the basest estate where he will show mercy. Therefore there is mercy above all mercy and love above all love, in that Christ was a servant.
Richard Sibbes
#42. '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
#43. In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.
Joseph Pearce
#44. The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.
Jon Foreman
#45. A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
Edward Gibbon
#46. Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
King Felipe VI
#47. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#48. Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford
#49. I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
Lee Daniels
#50. You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain," a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. "I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor - " "So I should call you Gandalf?
Karen Chance
#51. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#52. When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn't see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#53. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.
Jane Swisshelm
#54. You kissed me because you thought I was a servant, which is despicable."
"I kissed you because you were soft and shapely and at the time under me, which is in fact quite reasonable."
-Ravenna & Vitor
Katharine Ashe
#55. I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.
Mohammed Morsi
#56. Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases ... I don't know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant's heart,' I thought.
Gavin MacLeod
#58. You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
George R R Martin
#59. It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.
Bonaventure
#60. To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.
James Stephens
#61. Death is not the end for a servant of God, but just the start of indescribable everlasting life in the presence of Jesus.
Brother Yun
#62. Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn't dare ask: Master, why this banquet?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#63. Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
M. Scott Peck
#64. It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Richard Hofstadter
#65. I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.
Michael Mina
#66. He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.
Fred Shuttlesworth
#68. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
Mark Driscoll
#69. He that changes pride for worldliness, sensuality for Pharisaism, vanity in himself to the contempt of others, let him not think that he has mortified the sin that he seems to have left. He has changed his master, but is a servant still
Anonymous
#70. Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.
Paul Miller
#71. Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
Christina Rossetti
#72. Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.
Sarah
#73. For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never "wash out the stain of servility." There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.
Nancy Isenberg
#74. 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
#75. Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
Karl Kraus
#76. Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.
Necro
#77. IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING
Jon Foreman
#78. Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#79. If any of you want to be the greatest, then you must become the least, and become like a servant to all people.
Hidenori Kumai
#80. I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Emmanuelle Beart
#81. You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
Roberto Benigni La Vita E Bella
#82. Do not look for faults in others, but look for faults in yourself, and purge them like bad blood. Do not contemplate your own good qualities, but contemplate the good qualities of others, and respect everyone as a servant would.
Atisha
#83. To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
Sidney Hook
#84. gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I
Bram Stoker
#85. If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.
Jupiter Hammon
#86. The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.
Henry Ford
#87. The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.
Dolora Zajick
#89. I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
Caitlin Flanagan
#90. That's sarcasm! You can't talk to me like that! You're just a servant!"
"That's right. And so are you.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Jude Greeting JUDE 1 Jude, a servant [1] of Jesus Christ and brother of James, a To those who are called, b beloved in God the Father and c kept for [2] Jesus Christ: 2May d mercy, e peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Anonymous
#92. How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#93. Cyprian didn't shrug - a servant of his calibre would never do such a thing - but his entire demeanor implied a shrug.
K.J. Charles
#94. The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
John Steinbeck
#95. So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
Jack McDevitt
#96. I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
George Washington
#97. I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.
Henry Martyn
#98. As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
Ambrose
#99. The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice.
Andrei Tarkovsky
