When money is not a servant it is a master. — Indian Proverbs
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. — Charles De Gaulle
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you. — Jim Rohn
You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice — Roberto Benigni
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. — Diogenes
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Jean De La Bruyere
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves . — Dwight L. Moody
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. — Mikhail Bakunin
Master And Servant Quotes
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu
The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. — George Washington
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin
Words are good servants but bad masters. — Aldous Huxley
The MASTER has failed more times than beginner has even TRIED.
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised. — George Muller
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. — Brigham Young
Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. — Jay Baer
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen. — Ephrem the Syrian
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind. — Maria Montessori
Whoever has become a servant of the Lord fears only his Master. But whoever is without the fear of God is often afraid of his own shadow. Fearfulness is the daughter of unbelief. A proud soul is the slave of fear; hoping in itself, in comes to such a state that it is startled by a small noise, and is afraid of the dark. — John Climacus
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment. — Jonathan Haidt
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion. — Amory Lovins
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality. — Warren E. Burger
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. — Abraham Lincoln
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. — W. H. Auden
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. — Agatha Christie
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss. — Thomas Tusser
Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible. — Charles Spurgeon
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie
If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. — Jupiter Hammon
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant. — William Frederick Book
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. — Samuel Richardson
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. — David Rockefeller
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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. — Vince Cable
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. — John Selden
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. — Abraham Lincoln
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. — Woodrow Wilson
We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do. — Paul Kingsnorth
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. — Charles Spurgeon
Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward. — J. C. Ryle
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. — Lucullus
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. — Reginald Farrer
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly. — Desiderius Erasmus
In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything! — Vivienne Westwood
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs. — Anton Chekhov
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Under our form of government, the source of authority is supposed to be We the people. Not the slaves of a King. Our elected leaders are supposed to be public servants and not private masters. — James Dye
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