I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Are you in a situation right now that looks opposite to the direction you thought God was leading you in? Ask God… — Alex Seeley Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Your mind is merely a servant, and it behaves well if it is given positive impulses; it behaves very poorly if it… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“A minister, servant, or worker of the Lord Jesus is not a 'special' believer belonging to a 'special group.' According to New… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image