Servant Quotes - Page 10

• when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the
  same.

  John F. Kennedy

  Office, Interest, Conscience

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Devil, Vanishing

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• Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

  Harry Houdini

  Disloyalty, Performers, Happens

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.42, 谷月社

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• We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.

  Thad Cochran

  Life, Prayer, Lost

  "Rep. Alan Nunnelee dead at 56" by Jeremy Diamond, Alex Jaffe, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2015.

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• Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

  Mooji

  Mind, Masters

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

  Eugene Jarecki

  Ends, Pros And Cons, Public Servants

  "Exclusive: A Conversation With Eugene Jarecki, Director of Reagan Doc". Interview with Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. February 7, 2011.

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• People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, Long, People

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Passion, Heart, Way Forward

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Servant Of God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jinnah, Slave, Hinduism

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• That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Acceptable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Awareness, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

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• Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Thinking, Artist, Agency

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

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• Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

  Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

  Money, Riches, Wealth

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• If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

  Francis Bacon

  Money, Men, Greed

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• I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teacher, School, Law

  Source: patch.com

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• I remain God's humble servant.

  Jonathan Cain

  Humble

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• There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Public Servants

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India.

  Narendra Modi

  Team, Cabinets, India

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

  Malcolm X

  Son, Differences, Leader

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Musalia [Mudavadi] has a much weaker character in person than [Musikari] Kombo, and you know the joke about humble Luhya servants as cooks and watchmen...Anyway, jokes aside, Luhya disunity is a blessing for us and I would never have wanted it any other way.

  Raila Odinga

  Humble, Character, Blessing

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• [I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Husband, Father, Servant Of God

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