Servants Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.