Servants Quotes

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.