Quotes About Servant

If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.

When seen through the lens of a servant's heart, leadership becomes not just a job but a calling. Lives are changed for the better. Next-generation leaders are molded. Along the way, the sense of destiny God planted in each individual soul finds fulfillment.

Sin does not remain a contented servant; it seeks to seize and master its participants.

Bunter!" "Yes, my lord." "Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath." "Indeed, my lord? That's very gratifying." "Very, Bunter. Your choice of words is unerring. I wish Eton and Balliol had done as much for me...

Imagination is a good servant and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Well, I don't agree with you," said Griselda. "You know how little we can afford to pay a servant. If once we got her smartened up at all, she'd leave. Naturally. And get higher wages. But as long as Mary can't cook and has those awful manners—well, we're safe, nobody else would have her.

There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.

Being a servant of God means striving to align my will to that of the Master. I desire to unify my will with God's will within my own life and to delight in that unification. Rabbi Gamliel used to say: "Do His will as if it were your will that He may do your will as if it were His will.

Contrast Moses, eved HaShem par excellence, who is described in the Shabbat Amidah prayers as "Moses will be happy with the gift of his portion because a faithful servant You have called him."10 Happy. A servant.

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.

Sam Gamgee is the ultimate hero of The Lord of the Rings because he is the ultimate servant.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner. Mary Maceachran: Elsie? -- She's gone. Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.

You can speak to me. Not without a name, at least. Grim. And you are her servant? At the expression on his face, I added, Brother? Husband? He narrowed his eyes at me. Traveled here with her. Fixed the place up for her. I look after her. That enough for you? After what seemed to me a carefully judged pause, he added, My lord?

Pray don't hold back," Robert said politely. "You can tell me what you really think of my valet." Stewart broke in to a reluctant grin."Sorry fer bein' so forward, sir, but that valet o' yers is nothin' but a Frenchified piece o' lace.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

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