Servant Quotes
848 quotes by 637 authors
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Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children…
— Socrates
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The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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President means chief servant
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
— Grover Cleveland
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At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words…
— Harry S. Truman
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We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants.…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugene Ionesco
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
— George S. Patton
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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long…
— Gabriela Mistral
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the…
— Jean Cocteau
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You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and…
— Jonathan Haidt
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I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for…
— Corazon Aquino
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It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.
— Corazon Aquino
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
— Tony Judt
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The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called…
— Glenn Greenwald
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