Top 135 Servant Quotes

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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.

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.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best – if not the best – public servant I’ve ever encountered.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

Jesus’ life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Romance-comedy films usually get led by the main actor and main actress, just the two of them. Indeed, I was not sure if I was ready to bear the responsibility before casting in ‘7th Grade Civil Servant,’ but I started gaining more and more confidence as the drama went on.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That’s what I mean by respectability.

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.

My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

You don’t put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you’re an illustrator – it’s not part of it; it’s not possible. You are a servant to the story.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

‘The Naked Civil Servant’ by Quentin Crisp. I was so intrigued by the man, I hunted him down when I moved to New York. My first interview was with him. I filmed our conversation and it got me my first job in television.

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

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia’s number one servant. Servant – one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

My father taught us to serve with strength and clear-minded conviction, but to do so with humility, to work in the Oval Office on behalf of the American people with a servant’s heart.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

No lusting after your neighbor’s house – or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s.

Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

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

The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

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

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

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

Leadership is about being a servant first.

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 have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I’m writing for the ‘New Yorker,’ I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Work gives you meaning. Work turns you into a servant to your family and to your neighbors and to your local community.

Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don’t ever let it become the master; always remember it’s the servant.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.

I love studying different religions. For me, learning and drawing from the different religious traditions is essential to being a good public servant. And the connections between our various religious traditions become our public ethic; they tie us together.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

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.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I’m an economist. I’m not a political servant.

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.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

I had always been told cooking was a servant’s job.

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.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

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

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

While television is a good servant, it’s a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.