#servant

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. ↗

— Max de Pree

#between #define #first #last #leader

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. ↗

— Claudia Johnson

#been #elected #first #first lady #her

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anyone #back #get #government #i

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

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #servant #intelligence

The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#servants #love

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

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#servant #fame

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#servant-heart #service #spiritual-gifts #faith