#servant

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#become #master #order #politician #poses

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing. ↗

— Christopher Love

#blessed #blessed be #filled #god #hast

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

— Karel Capek

#appoint #colonel #god #granted #great

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#all day #being #bloody #champagne #day

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#change

A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#servanthood #faith

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

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #servant #intelligence

Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#servants #nature

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#languages #literature #literature-quotes #masters #philosophy