Servant Quotes

848 quotes by 623 authors

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch. — Roger L'Estrange
The best servant does his work unseen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord… — Dwight Edwards
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson
Every great house is full of haughty servants. — Juvenal
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory. — Ben Jonson
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there… — Elizabeth Bowen
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance. — Joseph Conrad
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed. — Billy Graham
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others.… — Dag Hammarskjold
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be. — Scott McClellan
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants. — Loretta Young
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned… — Maximus the Confessor
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors. — Yuri Milner
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in… — Symeon the New Theologian
Unbelievers, those who believe with difficulty, or believe in part, are those who do not show their faith through works. Apart from works the demons… — Symeon the New Theologian

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