Top 100 Master Servant Quotes
#1. Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!
Frank Herbert
#2. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. For Jesus, the correct interpretation of Scripture all comes down to how we love. The Bible was never intended to be our master, placing a burden on our back; it was intended to act as a servant, leading us to love God, others, and ourselves.
Derek Flood
#5. A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
John Dryden
#7. Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
Osho
#8. This word 'individual' is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging together anyhow without any center being there, without any master in the house, with only servants. And for a moment any servant can become the master.
Rajneesh
#9. Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Alexander Pope
#10. The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
Amory Lovins
#11. He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
Karl Barth
#12. Money may be a good servant, but for sure it is a bad master
Corrado Ghinamo
#13. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
#14. 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
#15. The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
John F. Kennedy
#16. Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
Willa Cather
#17. A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
George Washington
#18. To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.
Vincent Lowry
#19. We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#20. I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
Todd Akin
#21. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
Agatha Christie
#22. God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.
Kimberly Elkins
#23. The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir
#24. Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.
Rob Bell
#25. Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
Jules Verne
#26. If you want to know what real love looks like, first imagine a master and a servant, then imagine being unable to distinguish between them.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#27. Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#28. Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Stephen Covey
#29. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.
Gary L. Thomas
#30. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
Reginald Farrer
#31. Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.
George Washington
#32. It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James F. Cooper
#33. The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
Thomas Tusser
#34. One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.
[One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']
George Herbert
#35. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master.
Homer
#36. Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.
Chanakya
#37. Seek to be served, and you become a servant.
Seek to serve others, and you become a master.
Donald L. Hicks
#38. Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
Madeline Kahn
#39. You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.
Mooji
#40. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#41. 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
#42. In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles De Gaulle
#43. Reasoning was merely the servant of the passions, and when the servant failed to find any good arguments, the master did not change his mind.
Jonathan Haidt
#44. Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.
Robin Sharma
#45. Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
Thomas Jefferson
#46. The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master.
John Clark
#47. My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man.
"When the planting's done," I said.
"Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting."
"Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.
Orson Scott Card
#48. Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
#49. The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
Adolf Hitler
#50. The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.
Peter Drucker
#51. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#52. Memory is a great servant, but really bad master. When memory plays its role as a master, it limits our choices. It choices doors for us. We react to every single thing in our life because of our memory.
Ika Natassa
#53. If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
#54. Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.
Philippa Gregory
#55. Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.
Moses
#56. Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
Martin Luther
#57. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
Andrew Murray
#58. In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.
Charles Hermite
#59. 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
#60. Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
Franz Grillparzer
#61. A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master."1
Todd Burpo
#62. Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].
Billy Graham
#63. Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.
Jay Baer
#64. To be a servant can be a noble thing, but only as noble as the master served.
Jay Kristoff
#65. Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
Lucullus
#67. The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect ... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master.
Henry Peach Robinson
#70. A worthless servant is more popular than his master! This means that the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible is near at hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.
Michael Foley
#72. Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.
Mark O'Connell
#73. The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.
Don Cupitt
#74. It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.
Criss Jami
#75. a servant is not greater than his master, neither is the creation greater than the creator.
Branham Branham
#76. The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master's home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.
Rabindranath Tagore
#78. [ ... ] dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise.
Charles Dickens
#80. This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.
V.S. Carnes
#81. One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
Willie Nelson
#82. Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ...
Plato
#83. In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
#85. His lips were smooth and strong, and his tongue stroked mine with a passion and yearning that curled my toes. And we weren't dom and sub; we weren't master and servant; we weren't even man and woman. We were lovers...
Tara Sue Me
#86. Money is a good servant but a bad master. - SIR FRANCIS BACON
Anthony Robbins
#87. If you were a servant would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Then if you are your own master be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
Geoff Mulgan
#90. If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Francis Bacon
#91. Be ready, servant of Christ, for thy Master comes on a sudden, when an ungodly world least expects Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#92. But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will.
John Steinbeck
#93. God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#94. The writer is more servant than master of his story.
John Gardner
#95. Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
Gretchen Rubin
#96. If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.
Dave Ramsey
#97. Anger should be your servant, not your master
Alok Jagawat
#98. Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
Alistair Darling
#99. When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.
Ronald Reagan
#100. The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.
John Calvin
