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Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master. — George Washington

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. — Cesar Chavez

Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others. — Mollie Marti

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. — Robin S. Sharma

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. — Juvenal

The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding. — Max Heindel

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state. — Salman Rushdie

Serving and suffering are paired in the teaching and life of our Lord. One does not come without the other. And what servant is greater than The Lord? — J. Oswald Sanders

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. — James Joyce

James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant. — J. Oswald Sanders

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most. — James Hunter

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said. — Bernard Cornwell

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

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin

Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant — William Shakespeare

What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. — Anonymous

The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance. — Cheryl A. Bachelder

A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. — George R R Martin

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

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water. — Farshad Asl

Every great house is full of haughty servants. — Juvenal

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. — Thomas More

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch. — Roger L'Estrange

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. — Brigham Young

The best servant does his work unseen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful. — Samuel R. Delany

Suffer all things and strive to please Christ. Your well-wisher and servant, Tychon, Bishop of Voronezh September 1773. — G.P. Fedotov

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant. — Peter F. Drucker

The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master! — Adolf Hitler

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one, — Sherwood Smith

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master! — Thomas Carlyle

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant. — Red Barber

Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. — Simone De Beauvoir

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors. — Yuri Milner

If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. — Baltasar Gracian

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others. — Fred Shuttlesworth

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. — Joseph Campbell

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

Excuses can be your servant, but you must never become their slave. — Paul Clayton Gibbs

Though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim. — J. E. Buckrose

Is not Allah enough for his servant?? — Anonymous

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama . — Ramakrishna

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

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The holy servant, the Saviour JESUS CHRIST. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Madam C. J. Walker

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves . — Dwight L. Moody

Jesus did not come as a servant in spite of the fact that he is God; he came precisely because of the fact that he is God. — John Ortberg

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. — Nelson Mandela

Jesus came humbly as a servant, but He never begs us to give Him some small part of ourselves. He commands everything from His followers. — Francis Chan

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership. — Dave Ramsey

The striving from servant, the blessings from Almighty God. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master. — Thomas More

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly! — Marly Youmans

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. — Ned Vizzini

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. — Martin Luther

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master. — Michael Bassey Johnson

My righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. — Anonymous

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil. — Winston Churchill

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. — Guy Kawasaki

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. — Todd Akin

Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation) — Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona

The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves — Albert Einstein

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

In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant. — Charles De Gaulle

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house. — Franz Grillparzer

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee. — Salman Rushdie

If any of you want to be the greatest, then you must become the least, and become like a servant to all people. — Hidenori Kumai

The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master. — John Clark

Seek to be served, and you become a servant.
Seek to serve others, and you become a master. — Donald L. Hicks

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board. — Mark Miller

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished. — Lorraine Heath

In big and small details, Jesus perfectly fulfilled the prophecies of the suffering servant. — Chris Bruno

Money is a good servant but a bad master. - SIR FRANCIS BACON — Anthony Robbins

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

Money is a great servant but a bad master. — Francis Bacon

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. — Gilles Deleuze

He who plants a tree is a servant of God. — Louis L'Amour

To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning. — Vincent Lowry

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant. — Paul Miller

greatest leader is the one who would be just as content as a servant. — J.L. Lyon

accepted the cup the servant handed him — Elizabeth Peters

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. — William J. Clinton

Self-justification is a treacherous servant. — Wellington Mara

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

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job. — Michael Mina

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

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. — Watchman Nee

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

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

A good king is a public servant. — Ben Jonson