Serve Quotes - page 2

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. (Thomas Fuller)
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. View quote
William Hazlitt
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. View quote
André Malraux
To serve Armenia is to serve civilization. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. View quote
Joseph Addison
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. View quote
Anton LaVey
There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. View quote
Walter Reuther
Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. (Rudyard Kipling)
Steal to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless. View quote
Cesar Chavez
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. View quote
David Hume
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. View quote
Jonathan Swift
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. View quote
Henry Adams
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. View quote
Christopher Columbus
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them? (Carl Menger)
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor maintain it keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. View quote
Edward Abbey
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. View quote
M. Scott Peck
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian