Top 100 The Servant Quotes
#2. The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.
Marsha Blackburn
#3. I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.
Radhanath Swami
#4. I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'
Mike Pence
#5. It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.
Stefan Zweig
#6. The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.
Aleksandra Layland
#7. You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.
Zig Ziglar
#8. Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Goldwin Smith
#9. Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
Ann Cotton
#10. Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.
William Benton Clulow
#11. The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
Thomas More
#13. The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.
Max De Pree
#14. 37For nothing will be impossible with God." 38And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant [6] of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
Anonymous
#15. Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon
#16. When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
John C. Danforth
#17. Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill
#20. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse
#21. Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
Henry Fuseli
#22. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John The Apostle
#23. There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.
Joseph Campbell
#24. If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.
Stuart Greaves
#26. Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order - and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy.
Miranda July
#27. I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
Rumi
#28. Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God.
Pope Francis
#30. No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
Jim Wallis
#31. The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
L. Ron Hubbard
#32. Spike desperately lifted a shield of energy just in time for the Servant to blow it apart with a single punch.
Crafty Nichole
#33. My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.
Anne Rice
#34. Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile.
John Piper
#35. reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.
William B. Irvine
#36. Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?
Zicheng Hong
#37. He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. How will it look to everyone at dinner if the servant who left with Amarinda fails to return?
How will it look if that servant's bandages bleed through and he drips blood on Conner's dinning table?
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien
#45. The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
Henry Adams
#46. The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
Theodore Parker
#47. Fact is,' he said without any of his usual bonhomie, 'religious fafaith, which encodes the highest ass ass aspirations of human race, is now, in our cocountry, the servant of lowest instincts, and gogo God is the creature of evil.
Salman Rushdie
#48. Evans, Evans!" He Cried.
Mrs. Smith was talking aloud to himself, Agnes the servant girl cries to Mrs. Filmer in the kitchen. "Evans, Evans" he had said as she brought in the tray. She jumped, she did. She scuttled downstairs.
Virginia Woolf
#49. In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#53. The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
John Quincy Adams
#54. I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
David Rockefeller
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
D.H. Lawrence
#58. 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
#60. No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.
Ildefonsus
#61. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
Mel Lawrenz
#62. Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#63. Jesus wanted the twelve leaders to remember the example He left just hours before crucifixion. He wanted them to understand that the servant spirit is critical to the development of spiritual leaders.
Teresa Hampton
#64. Citizens are equal to government. They should be at the same height as government. Citizens have to know that the government is at their service, the government is the servant of people. But citizens know it's not like this. This is the theory, but in reality it's the other way.
Manuela Carmena
#65. He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Ben Jonson
#66. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a world that honors the servant, but has forgotten the gift. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
Thich Nhat Hanh
#67. A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
William Carey
#68. Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak
#69. Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
Madeline Kahn
#72. Hold on to your own ideal ... Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.
Michel Faber
#74. In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles De Gaulle
#75. Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#76. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B.R. Ambedkar
#77. 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
#78. Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.
Robin Sharma
#79. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.
MacDonald Harris
#81. Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
Alistair Darling
#82. The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires.
Freeman Dyson
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
Jacques Ellul
#89. It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
Allison Janney
#90. Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.
Lewis Hyde
#91. The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.
Sathya Sai Baba
#92. Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.
Umar II
#93. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
Mike Huckabee
#94. The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.
Cormac McCarthy
#95. The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
#96. Integrity, honesty, reverence toward God, avoidance of evil and consistent religious affection are graces that ought to characterize the servant of God. They are not developed instantly, but result from the consistently demonstrable growth of a "new creation"30 in Christ.
Whit Woodard
#97. Wanted, a man "who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to heed a strong will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Brett McKay
#98. On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds?
So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
Abu Umamah Al Bahili
#99. 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
#100. And deferring always to the desires of others, he finds that they are glad to defer to him. Lovingly firm and graciously gentle, he is the chief of all because he is the servant of all. Does
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
