Top 100 Servant Quotes
#3. No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.
Ildefonsus
#5. How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?
James M. Barrie
#8. As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
Denis McDonough
#9. Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
Stephen Covey
#11. 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
#12. The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.
Giorgio Baglivi
#13. 1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause
Tom Krause
#14. Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious ...
Francis Bacon
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
J.G. Holland
#20. Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
Francine Rivers
#21. Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.
Michael Swanwick
#22. A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Martin Luther
#23. 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
#24. Lord I am your servant. Praise to you glory to you. Vast are you, Lord, and vast should be your praise. My faith in you is your gift to me, which you have breathed into me by the humanity your Son assumed.
Glenn Cooper
#25. Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.
John Bowring
#26. The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant
Stuart Greaves
#27. 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
#28. If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard
#29. You are My witnesses" - the LORD'S declaration - "and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He." Isaiah 43:10
Beth Moore
#30. A burger and fries will be fine, servant."
"I appreciate your order, jackass."
"As you should, beauty.
Bijou Hunter
#31. She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state.
Joanna Baillie
#33. Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
Bill Johnson
#34. I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
David Rockefeller
#35. Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
Manny Pacquiao
#36. How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
Dawson Trotman
#37. My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears. 11 Making a vow, she pleaded, "Lord of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
Anonymous
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I am not a woman, I am a thing. An object, a servant for their needs. Sex is a tool.
Jasinda Wilder
#43. President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader ...
Aberjhani
#44. 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
#45. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
Dave Ramsey
#46. The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
Charles Babbage
#47. The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
Peter Drucker
#48. True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.
Bill Gothard
#49. The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
John Quincy Adams
#50. 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
#52. God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Saint Augustine
#53. '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
#54. If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#55. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
Gerald R. Ford
#56. In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.
Joseph Pearce
#57. To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.
Serge Lutens
#58. My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
James Dobson
#59. Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.
Tommy Tenney
#60. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela
#61. Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
Kage Baker
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned
Anonymous
#65. 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
#66. PSA143.2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Anonymous
#67. An excellent servant is always present, yet rarely seen or heard. Much like a specter who happens to enjoy cleaning." - The Dowager Marchioness of Wallingham to her butler.
Elisa Braden
#68. My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!
George Harrison
#69. Good. I wouldn't want you to fall madly in love with me. That would make things very complicated when it comes to your beloved Shadow, wouldn't it? Who'd win the battle for your heart then? The servant or the king?
Michelle Rowen
#70. 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
#71. Lord, look down on Thy Servant!
Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease - his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!
Cherise Sinclair
#72. 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
#74. You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
George R R Martin
#76. 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
#77. He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
George Herbert
#78. Nietzche ... he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
George Bernard Shaw
#79. The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys in a royal kingdom (Is 22:22) and in God's house, the temple.
Craig S. Keener
#80. I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.
Mohammed Morsi
#81. The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.
John Climacus
#82. Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien
#83. 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
#84. The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
Ram Dass
#85. My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
#86. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.
Geoff Watts
#87. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#88. Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
J.G. Holland
#89. The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.
Jon Foreman
#90. She would- never mind. She was his servant. Slave mentality. This was not the girl I asked to marry me. She was his slave and believed she knew only joy...where was my wife? What was this creature she stroked and sucked at...
David Foster Wallace
#91. 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
#92. The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
Indira Gandhi
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#97. Husband?"
"Aye. Husband."
"The slow-witted one that's been following you? I thought he
was your servant.
G.A. Aiken
#98. 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
#99. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all
Timothy Keller
#100. The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
Theodore Parker
