Quotation Explorer - 'Serve'

Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune. - Lucian of Samosata
Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival. - Suzette Hinton
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. - Elizabeth George
The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them. - Sunday Adelaja
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. - Michael Moore
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. - Bible
Crowns belong to those that serve. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better! - Kevis Hendrickson
Showing respect for others when they don’t agree with you, and during the times when you don’t agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully. - Ellen J. Barrier
The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans - Sunday Adelaja
Money is only a means to serve God. - Sunday Adelaja
There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
My prayer is to seek, find and serve God. - Gift Gugu Mona
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. - Lao Tzu
Life is a party where everybody is invited. Feel free to serve yourself. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home. - Gore Vidal
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story. - James MacDonald
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. - George F. Will
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. - William Shakespeare
The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. - Dorothy Gallagher
People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences. - Sunday Adelaja
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
The earth craves our replenishment. Let our gifts serve the purpose for which it was given to us. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lord, teach me to be generous;Teach me to serve you as you deserve;To give and not to count the cost;To fight and not to heed the wounds;To toil, and not to seek for rest;To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will. - Ignatius of Loyola
To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born. - W. Somerset Maugham
You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by and for your actions and accomplishments for doing good not by your title or positions. - George Stamatis
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one. - Wallace D. Wattles
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. - Bernard M. Baruch
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. - Dick Gregory
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.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume
When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness. - Tom Krause
The seeds we sow today will grow to serve as shades for weary travellers tomorrow - Nike Thaddeus
Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel. - Christoph Fischer
Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours. - Debasish Mridha
Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world. - Roy T. Bennett
Best way to achieve greatness is to serve others with great love. - Debasish Mridha
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin Proverb
[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it. - Albert Camus
Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - John Milton
Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is. - Kemi Sogunle
Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going. - Anna Agoncillo
As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve. - Felix Wantang
As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower. - Farshad Asl
Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don’t tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life. - Roshan Sharma
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Alchemy is the process of changing lead into gold. Inner alchemy (personal transformation) occurs when we clear our clutter—internal and external—and let go of things that no longer serve us well. This creates balance and space, a place that nurtures contentment, which I believe is true success. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
I would rather serve God and displease my flesh than serve my flesh and displease God. - Mandy Fender
Maxims serve the wise;folly enslaves fools. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. - Eleanor Brownn
Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in. - Sunday Adelaja
When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy. - Debasish Mridha
I'd rather live one day as a lionthan live a hundred years as a sheepI'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heavenlive my dream out in reality and not in my dreams - Lukas Graham
We all will live much happier when we will learn to love and serve each other. - Debasish Mridha
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here." - Ambrose Bierce
Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world. - J 'son M. Lee
We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence. - Henry S. Haskins
The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others. - Gugu Mona
I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh
Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest 'I AM. - Lionel Suggs
You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. - Judith Olney
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. - Sunday Adelaja
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
What makes Jesus remarkable is that He didn’t come to earth to lead, He came to serve. - Jim George
Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant's toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt their soulsAll live transient lives - Kreator
Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - John Milton
All that is in this world is vanity, but to love God and to serve only Him.
We have mainly been taught to just stay in the church, be faithful, serve the church, and serve the man of God. - Sunday Adelaja
To find joy in life, it is our responsibility and duty to love and serve others. - Debasish Mridha
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. - Pope John Paul II
To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can. - Debasish Mridha
Looking at the Blessed Mother, Kevin felt the pull of a special allegiance with her. To Serve God, to honor Mary who speaks to my soul, sending me messages I cannot know the meaning of? Is this what my life is about? - Peter J Tanous
Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society. - Testy McTesterson
Archangel Zadkiel, help me to remove, clear and replace old patterns that no longer serve me. And so it is, amen. - Eileen Anglin
Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back. - Kamand Kojouri
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. - Ronald Reagan
When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer. - Marilyn Suttle
live as temporal, serve as eternal - John Paul Warren
I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy. - Debasish Mridha
Life is an opportunity to serve. - Sunday Adelaja
We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future! - Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around. - Marty Rubin
We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community. - Kurt Vonnegut
Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example. - Jim George
I may not know who you are, where you are, or where you will be after I have gone, but I still love you. I came to this world to serve all of you. - Debasish Mridha
If you actively serve God where He places you, you will never have to be sorry for lost time. - Sunday Adelaja
Our services serve a specific need. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Josie is a Pye, said Marilla sharply, so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don’t know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles. - L.M. Montgomery
I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore. - Nikki Rowe
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. - Stephen Colbert
Education itself is Marketing--marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed). - Shellen Lubin
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. - Abraham Lincoln
If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath. - David Dark
How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted - Richie Norton
Serve a person in need.Give generously indeed. - Debasish Mridha
Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee. They will walk away when they can devote themselves to a some call to serve a cause that connects nationalism to dignity and democracy and transcends a lifetime. - David Brooks
God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does! - Gary Patton
After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us. - Jerome Doolittle
There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. - Debasish Mridha
The most important question that we should ask is, How can I serve? - Debasish Mridha
Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life. - Elizabeth George
Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest. - Kevin J. Donaldson
The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve. - Orrin Woodward
The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. - Jay Woodman
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you. - Noah Levine
Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you. - Christopher Babson
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. - Honore De Balzac
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. - John Milton
You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody... - Bob Dylan
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity. - Marcus Garvey
God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity. - Radhe Maa
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. - Blaise Pascal
The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life. - Roshan Sharma
I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually. - Abeer Allan
We live to share and serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong. - Jeanette Winterson
We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve. - Debasish Mridha
Happy to be here, proud to serve. - Keith Allan Moore
Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity. - Durgesh Satpathy
Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old - Radhe Maa
Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people. - Shannon L. Alder
Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless. - Artika Tyner
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. - Anaïs Nin
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama
If you serve people, they will gladly serve your vision. - Sunday Adelaja
If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve. - Tony Curl
The different sacred gifts serve a divine purpose. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky
MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce
Then Joshua warned the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy and jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. - Anonymous
Nature! I think it my duty to serve its beauty. - Tanmaya Guru
We exist to serve the Lord - Radhe Maa
You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit. - Stephen Decatur
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What liberate us is what we live to serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln
Through work, we serve, minister, and become God’s stewards on the earth. - Sunday Adelaja
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. - Ellis Peters
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. - Nicolaas Bloembergen
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion. - Auberon Herbert
The Master said, The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.(Analects 2.12) - Confucius
Actions without a dream serve you no purpose, Dreams without action merely pass the time, however, a Dream set into motion….the future has no boundaries. - Mark W. Boyer
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. - G.K. Chesterton
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ. - CARLOS H. AMADO
Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter. - David Brainard
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. - John Milton
Here at least we shall be free. . . Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - John Milton
You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now - E'yen A. Gardner
Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. - Pearl S. Buck
All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems. - Abhijit Naskar
Those who have chosen to provide for the health and well being of others. Call them homoeopaths, allopaths and whatever one may, they must remember, they have been called and have chosen to serve. - 1965 - Dr. Ron Harris
Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another. - Chris Vonada
In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea. - Shunryu Suzuki
Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy. - Debasish Mridha
May we continue to serve one another in love. - Lailah Gifty Akita
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. - Thomas Fuller
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? - William Shakespeare
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. - Al Capone
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. - Roger A. Caras
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland
True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve. - Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling
You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you. - Lauren Zimmerman
There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. - George H.W. Bush
The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah. - Zarina Bibi
Don’t serve time. Make time serve you. - Timothy G Cameron
Whatever you do, do with integrity. Wherever you go, go as a leader. Have courage to lead. Whenever you serve serve with caring. Whenever you dream, dream with your all. And innovate, never give up. ~, America's Richest Families: A Forbes Compendium Of Stories Since 1977 - Curt Carlson
Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you. - Sunday Adelaja
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. - Bhagavad Gita
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. - Fernand Point
Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity. - Debasish Mridha
When you search for happiness, it flies away.When you serve others, you will find the way.When you share blessings and express kindness,You will find the source of enduring happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. - James Russell Lowell
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Leaders of all systems (Capitalism, Communism, etc.) in History claimed to serve the people. All Systems would work if the leaders meant it! - Francis Mont
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings. Michael Horton, Ordinary, 14 - Michael S. Horton
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt. - Wisdom Kwashie Mensah
We must sincerely serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
They call me one of the 4 Devas, but I don't have any members in my faction. My life is all you need. They serve no use at all. They just happen to be my family. -Otose - Hideaki Sorachi
Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you. - Roshan Sharma
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. - Sun Tzu
Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me. - Tamora Pierce
You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies. - Serina Hernandez
Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served. - Jim George
To all the motherless daughters out there; may your heartache serve you in the best of ways. May your grief give you a better understanding of yourself, may your sentiment allow you to express and create, and may your love expand beyond what you ever thought possible. - Kayko Tamaki
Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding. - Nichole Beamer
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. - César Chávez
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce
Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better - Jay Woodman
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment. - Chico Xavier
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. - Bernard of Clairvaux
Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius
I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust. - Richie Norton
The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
For beautiful success, serve with love and serve with courage. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living. - Jeanette Winterson
Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet. - Manoj Vaz
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? - Confucius
Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty. - Cathy Ladman
You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed. - Debasish Mridha
People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light. - Sunday Adelaja
Every person has something he can serve other people with. - Sunday Adelaja
Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster. - Raphael Zernoff
As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own. - Dana Gore
To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. - Debasish Mridha
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No book or theory can serve as a substitute for lived experience. - Marty Rubin
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness. - Hannah More
It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because ofthe need to assuage an unusual power drive. - Robert Greenleaf
Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God. - Jim George
How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ... - Chris Damian
We earn to live, but we serve for a life. - Debasish Mridha
Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity. - Neymat Khan
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - Aesop
Money is our servant not our God. Let it serve you not the other way around. - Debasish Mridha
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here. - Kamand Kojouri
Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men. - Katha Pollitt
We meet lots of people in a lifetime and we lose some of them over a period of time . But every person who comes in lives has a purpose to serve.. NO MEETING IS AN ACCIDENT, EVERY PERSON THAT WE MEET PLAYS A ROLE IN OUR LIVES, WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT. - Raj Kiran Atagaraha
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing. - Robert Collier
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."~Aunt Persis - Constance Savery
To add value to your life, serve others with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Dreams are very important. They direct your path and serve as predictors for your future. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Even those things which are cursed do serve a mighty purpose. - Paul Bamikole
Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons. - Ann Coulter
When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness,You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness. - Debasish Mridha
When your intentions are to serve, you will be served. - Debasish Mridha
To be a real leader, serve with love. - Debasish Mridha
Sacred souls serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is an opportunity to love and serve. - Debasish Mridha
Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets. - Randy Gonzales
The purpose of our life is to serve not to observe. - imahmedyounis
always serve too much hot fudge sause on the hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed,and puts them in your debt - Judith Olney
When you are eager to serve the world, the universe will be eager to serve you. - Debasish Mridha
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. - Wayne W. Dyer
I was born to serve. - Lailah Gifty Akita
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act - Plato
Life finds its meaning and answers from what life does to serve others. - Debasish Mridha
Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you. - Alan Cohen
Tough times should serve only one purpose in your life; to teach you how to be tougher on the inside than your circumstances are on the outside. - DeWayne Owens
I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus. - Mother Teresa
Everyone comes to this world with one great purpose. That is to serve others. - Debasish Mridha
Five rules to follow to be a great leader: 1. Be curious. 2. Serve others. 3. Be purpose oriented. 4. Be adaptive. 5. Be positive. - Debasish Mridha
Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents. - Shannon L. Alder
Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future... - Shelly Thacker
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