#servant

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#kingdom #servants #business

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#observant #inspirational

Finish Well; Anyone Can Start Well ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

Stop Destroying Shareholder Value ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me? ↗

— Mollie Marti

#hope #inspiration #servant-leader #change

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #agencies #assist #bureaucracy #civil

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God. ↗

— Henry Martyn

#servant-of-god #business

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard. ↗

— Colin Clark

#faithfulness #servanthood #faith

In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#brigands #catholic-church #charlemagne #chivalry #highwaymen