Serves Quotes

Give more than is expected. Love more than seems wise. Serve more than seems necessary. Help more than is asked.

Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.

No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.

It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging;

when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life. We are now born in institutions called hospitals. We are raised in institutions called schools. We are trained for institutional corporate life in institutions called universities. We serve in institutions called corporations. We exist under the master institutions of military and government. We die in institutions called hospitals or nursing homes. From birth to the grave, mankind is an institutional creature.

Our allegiance to morality should always advocate on behalf of peace, and serve a vision of a future in which the institutions of war are obsolete.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses;

and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.