Top 100 I Serve Quotes
#1. Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
Maya Angelou
#2. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao-Tzu
#3. I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.
Misty Upham
#4. Only real good Energy has Good Results.
I serve by modesty and simplicity,
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 25, 2016
Petra Hermans
#5. I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.
Wayne Dyer
#6. Lysandra said softly, "I will not apologize to you. I serve her. And I am willing to spend the rest of my life pretending to be her so that her sacrifice isn't in vain - " "You
Sarah J. Maas
#7. Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One.
Tulsidas
#8. I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
Marianne Faithfull
#9. I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
Tony Campolo
#10. Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?
Pierre Corneille
#11. Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.
Rodney Crowell
#12. I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?'
'Somebody ought to be.
Catherynne M Valente
#13. The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.
Marge Piercy
#14. I don't have all the answers I need yet, and I'm not ready to give up until I completely understand the purpose I serve and what it is I'm supposed to do.
K. Weikel
#15. The most important question that we should ask is, "How can I serve?
Debasish Mridha
#16. When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness.
Wayne Dyer
#17. Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#19. I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
Phyllis Diller
#20. If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.
Mark Salzman
#21. I find I serve the world best by keeping my distance and freedom.
Thomas Merton
#23. Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my joy, my crown. Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands, Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#24. The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
Stevie Wonder
#25. I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
Jenna Bush
#26. Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.
John F. Kennedy
#27. Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
Parker Palmer
#28. For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice.
Kim Raver
#29. See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
Anthony Quinn
#30. I cook this food with love and affection, for those I serve, I ask protection.
Deborah Blake
#31. I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
Soledad O'Brien
#32. If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.
D.H. Lawrence
#34. I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
Mary J. Blige
#35. It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
Josef Albers
#36. I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
Ben Brantley
#38. I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.
James Ellroy
#39. I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
#41. First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.
Roger Zelazny
#42. I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work.
Robert Englund
#43. Father, I serve the Messiah, the Christ. Not any Caesar. His kingdom is not of this world, and no man need fight for it. All empires will pass away, but Christ lives. He is love and peace, and his kingdom will last forever.
David Holdsworth
#44. I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.
Shane Black
#45. It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.
Joe Arpaio
#47. I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Ben Carson
#48. In My Life, I've Been Through Some Pretty Low Valleys & Some Beautiful Mountain Tops. Yet ... Through all my happy & sad days,If I learned One Thing In My Life It's That What An A Extremely Awesome God I Serve!
Timothy Pina
#49. I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
Wylie Dufresne
#50. I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
Eva Gabor
#51. I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.
Mickey Gilley
#52. I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.
Mark Kirk
#53. I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
Michelangelo
#54. Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.
Andrew Jackson
#55. Richard Rogers was lecturing at Wethersfield, Essex, someone told him, "Mr. Rogers, I like you and your company very well, but you are so precise." To which Rogers replied, "O Sir, I serve a precise God.
Leland Ryken
#56. People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
#57. I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.
Edward Burns
#58. At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Michael Pollan
#59. I'll show thee best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
I'llift fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I'll bear him no sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.
---Caliban
(Act II, scene 2, lines 158-162)
William Shakespeare
#60. What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
Peter Drucker
#61. I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
Jane Hirshfield
#62. I am delivered from the law. I serve God in the newness of the spirit.
Imogen Garner
#63. Where there is superior force, I serve under constraint; where there is power, I serve willingly.
Esther Vilar
#64. The Whole Human Race
I serve, Petra Hermans
Amen
Petra Hermans
#66. The religious heart says, "I must do my duty in order to be of value to God." Worship is the opposite of religion. The heart of worship says, "Jesus proved I am of value to God. I serve Him because He is also of value to me.
Zach Neese
#67. I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.
John McCain
#68. I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Voltaire
#69. Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
Sally Schneider
#70. The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer
Ernst Junger
#71. I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#72. They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have mentioned, what fear could they possibly have from a old man with dimming eyesight, arthritis, diabetes, and other health issues that render me hardly a threat to anyone.
Leonard Peltier
#73. The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.
Michelle Shocked
#74. I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
Jim Lehrer
#75. Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.
Tamora Pierce
#76. I am so very grateful that I serve a God who walks the difficult roads with us, whether we recognise Him there or not. I am so very grateful for a God who has experienced betrayal, fear and death himself and overcomes them all.
Joan Campbell
#77. It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'
Wayne Dyer
#78. I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Rick Warren
#79. I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
John Piper
#80. I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.
Jim Butcher
#81. Thank U God I serve a new day by my grace.
Petra Hermans
November 5, 2016
Petra Hermans
#82. My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.
Stefne Miller
#83. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.
Alice Notley
#84. I serve My Story.
I do not serve one Country.
Religion of Blue Circle
The Neverending Story
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 13, 2016
Petra Hermans
#85. For LOVE I came into this World" From LOVE I'm Guided... With LOVE I Serve...
Kerry Eble-Keller
#86. This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all serve as the plot for another story, for a different novel, which I do not even know that I shall ever undertake.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#89. I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.
John McCain
#90. I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
William P. Young
#91. I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.
Thomas Muster
#92. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.
James Hogg
#93. I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.
B. J. Palmer
#94. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#95. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#96. I'm sorry. I can't serve him that item," the waitress said, only somewhat surprising her since she had a pretty good idea why.
"Why not?" she found herself asking anyway out of curiosity to see if she was right.
***
"Because he's a Bradford," the woman explained with a shrug.
R.L. Mathewson
#97. If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
Mason Cooley
#98. I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.
Dick Cheney
#99. I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
Karen Finerman
#100. Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.
Edgar Rice Burroughs