Servant Quotes

PUBLIC SERVANT: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

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

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

I am only the Security Council's servant, though not always its humble one.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

As many servants so many enemies.

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.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

I am, as you know, only the servant of the people.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.