Servant Quotes

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Heal the past and you'll heal the present. Kharis Macey

~ Kharis Macey

A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

~ Voltaire

Anger should be your servant, not your master

~ Alok Jagawat

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

~ Erin Mccarthy

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

~ J. Aaron Gruben

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

~ Donald L. Hicks

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend but a mistress, and a family that wasn’t but people who owned her and ordered her about, and nothing at all but her pretty breasts and her round bottom and her misbehaving hair to help her feel any different.

~ Ru Freeman

God wants to be seen on earth through His devoted servants.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human service was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

~ Stanley Ager

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

~ Elizabeth George

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

~ Emma Donoghue

God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.

~ Kimberly Elkins

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.

~ Fernando Pessoa

House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.

~ La Tisha Honor

Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

~ Ann Lawrence

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

~ Jane Austen

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

~ Jean Lorrain

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

~ Jef Raskin

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

~ Mike Pence

Leadership is about being a servant first.

~ Allen West

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

~ Salman Rushdie

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

~ Charles De Gaulle

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

~ Christian Lous Lange

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

~ Kin Hubbard

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

~ Norodom Sihamoni