Servant Quotes

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

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.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

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.

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.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

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.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

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.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

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.

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.

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.