Servant Quotes - Page 13

• One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Advantage, Inferiors

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.232

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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Umpires, Judging

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• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, People, Agents

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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

  William Congreve

  College, Gentleman, Littles

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 5, sc. 3

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• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Self, Doe, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Responsibility, Faithful Servants, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Management, Sometimes, Blind

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• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Purpose, Literature

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

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Enemy, Protect

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Servant Of God, Earth

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.157, Macmillan

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Intellectual

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

  Kin Hubbard

  Hate, Politics, Libertarian

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Memories, Imagination

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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Odds, Perfect

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• 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.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Father, Boys

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• Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  People, Islam, Pakistan

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• You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

  Steve Jobs

  Perfection, Agents, Next

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• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Sea, People, Example

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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

  James Joyce

  Art, Glasses, Symbols

  Ulysses (1922)

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• Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Care, Dear God, Please

  Inscription for cards at her husband's funeral, November 25, 1963.

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Hans Kung

  People, Community, Understanding

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• I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Self, Order, Genius

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.48

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• Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Encounters, Selfless

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• Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

  Mike Leigh

  Integrity, Real, Principles

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Decision, Reverse

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1860-1861”

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