Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!
Susan Brooks is a hard-working public servant who has spent her career fighting for Hoosiers. In Congress, she was the first woman from Indiana to chair a committee, and has become one of the most effective lawmakers in Washington: her dedicated work on behalf of her constituents and our state will be missed.
I want to be a public servant, not a politician.
As a civil servant in charge of the government’s Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
I’m not BJP’s servant.
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
I’m a Christian, I’m a servant of God first. Not a fighter anymore, first. I also have a family so that comes before fighting. Fighting, it’s my sport that I’m passionate about, it’s a career, it’s how I provide for my family. But it’s not what defines who I am.
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton’s ability to achieve team synergy.
One of the topics I’m most passionate about is servant leadership – the greatest leaders recognize that they’re here to serve, not to be served.
How my film career happened, I don’t know. It was unplanned. I’d been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really ‘The Naked Civil Servant’ in 1975 that put me on the radar.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.
The best of Johnny Lever’s films are ‘Baazigar,’ ‘Kareeb’ and ‘Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega.’ I just love his work in ‘Baazigar,’ where he plays a servant and tries to hammer a nail on a wall and is unsuccessful.
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
Yes, the car is still useful – for a few people it’s essential. It would make a good servant. But it has become our master, and it spoils everything it touches.
We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I’m its servant; it’s not mine. I’m doing what it wants.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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.
As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.
Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you’re entertaining people.
My first professional set was 2014, and it was for a show called ‘Bob Servant’ for BBC Scotland. I was working in theater for Dundee Rep Theatre doing ‘Hecuba,’ and I also got this other job, ‘Bob Servant.’ It was only three days filming.
A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.
Being attracted to someone plays a big part, but there’s also so much more than that for me. It’s about finding someone sweet and kind – and that has a servant’s heart.
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.
I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, ‘Where am I needed most?’
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
The hand is man’s most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.
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.
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.
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can’t be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people’s faithful representative, and the public’s most obedient, very humble servant.
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
I can’t see the point in being in politics if you’re not yourself. If you’re simply interested in implementing other people’s policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it’s exciting because you can argue forward.
I have an issue with dogs – I can’t pick up after them. It’s nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
Both my comedy partner, Steve Punt – who grew up in Reigate and is the son of a civil servant – and I come from similarly suburban backgrounds, and its really what fuels our comedy.
A servant sometimes need to be served.
Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I’m realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.
If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I’m on his errand.
I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen – not as a ruler but as a servant.
I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He’s a guy that looks good. He’s very articulate, he’s very smart, and he truly is a public servant.
I have spent 40 years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first.
I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.
Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose’s life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
