Quotation Explorer - 'Servin'

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. - Rudyard Kipling
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong. - Idries Shah
Love & Passion for Motherland is NaturalServing with Respect to Home Land is Necessary - Venkat Gandhi
Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas. - Josh Thompson
"Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart."
The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts. - Mike Klepper
Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood. - Amy Denise
Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness. - Debasish Mridha
You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels. - Calvin Vronsky, The Gambit
Do what makes YOU happy. Focus on what brings YOU joy. Appreciate and do more things that make YOU smile. Live your life for yourself. You matter! You count! You’re deserving of true happiness! This is YOUR life. Live it to the fullest! Live life with no regrets. - Stephanie Lahart
Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead with excellence. - Onyi Anyado
Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you. - Werley Nortreus
Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people. - Ian Desabrais
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. - Jane Austen
The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell. - Alexander Chase
Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula - Victor Manan Nyambala
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. - Isaac Asimov
God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity. - Radhe Maa
? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way. - Jonah Books.com
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - George Washington
Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing. - Shaolin
Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered. - Lionel Suggs
An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! - Evinda Lepins
Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence. - Onyi Anyado
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. - Ambrose Bierce
What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.
Few things are as exhilarating and challenging for a man as winning a woman’s heart.Few things are as efficient in preserving your marriage as doing it every day, for the rest of your life. - Zoran Stojkovski
The purpose of life should be to attain happiness by serving humanity with love and utmost sincerity. - Debasish Mridha
Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. - Jay Woodman
Standing alone and observing from an edge "the giant universe" isn't that much scary than leaving yourself with your thoughts and creating insight in yourself!Equally big universe lies within ourselves as well - raja shakeel mushtaque
It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again. - Christina Engela
EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion. - Ambrose Bierce
The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. - Richard Bach
If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good. - Deborah Day
Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two. - Unarine Ramaru
The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand. - Wisława Szymborska
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. - Ambrose Bierce
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain. - Thomas Jefferson
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. - Dorothy Day
It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. - William Shakespeare
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. - Homer
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch
Just imagine a mental health status of a person who could accept award without deserving it and then exuding happiness and even expressing thanks to the audience. - Anuj Somany
I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate. - Chris Matakas
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. - Ernest Hemingway
Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class. - Giuseppe Prezzolini
Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them. - Yasmin Mogahed
If you don’t have a teacher, don’t worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature. - Debasish Mridha
Serving others prepares you to lead others. - Jim George
In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner. - Darmie Orem
In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance. - Dada Bhagwan
It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life. - Kathy Bates
We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
If a person wants to be a part of your life,they will make an obvious effort to do so.Think twice before reserving a space in your heartfor people who do not make an effort to stay. - Sham Hinduja
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it. - José Saramago
Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence. - Onyi Anyado
I've got to tell you that my vocation, my true calling, is serving others. Medicine is my avocation; it's part of how I answer my calling, but it's not all of it. I minister to bodies, but I also minister to hearts and souls. - Doc, Finding Normal
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. - Linda Olsson
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. - Kevin J. Anderson
It is in the stillness of the mind that we perceive the heart with clarity. By constantly observing the inner weather, we steer through life wisely, steadfastly, sans regrets. - Daaji
I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love! - Dr. Bien Sufficient
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."[Man and the Gospel (1865)] - Thomas Guthrie
i am open + free to create in abundance. i am deserving of my own love + it comes in the form of art. - The Nyghtlie Poet
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Sharon Salzberg
I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power. - Carlos Fuentes
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider. - B.F. Skinner
Preservation of the past has been one of humankind’s chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving. - Chris Flynn
Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving. - Jim George
When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia? - Matthew S. Williams
HE LOOKS AT ME AND TELLS ME IM AGGRESSIVE, HE'S OBSERVING ME. "-CRUSH - LORINDA MONRREAL
A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving - Sunday Adelaja
their is no better job elsewhere than serving humanity - Adechian Olabode
In serving the poor,one serves humanity.In serving mankind,one serves equity.In serving goodness,one serves God.In serving the Creator,one serves himself. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. - William A. Smith
Serving is the best kind of Leading. - Todd Stocker
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. - John R.W. Stott
Sentimentality towards the undeserving is as dangerous as agreeing to putting one foot in the grave. - K.A. Hosein
friendly people serving friendly people - flirtease
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. - George Santayana
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. - Jane Austen
If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don’t explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say thank you and smile; that was the purpose. - Travis Culliton
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren
Life is about exercising your God-given dominion, loving and serving God, loving and serving mankind and fulfilling the unique and specific God-given purpose - EK Hammond
[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it. - Jane Mayer
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. - Socrates
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need. - Kellen Roggenbuck
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. - Edward St. Aubyn
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state. - Harry Truman
Don't make excuses for your mistakes.Don't try to please your enemies.Don't run from your responsibilities.Don't force your opinions on others.Don't complain about things you can change.Don't compare yourself to anyone.Don't let undeserving people into your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation. - John F. Kennedy
Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence. - Onyi Anyado
We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving. - Debasish Mridha
There is only one purpose in life, which is happiness. We attain happiness by serving others with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Even wondered about the difference?Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness. - Raul Ramos y Sanchez
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. - Malcolm Forbes
GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing. - Ambrose Bierce
Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people. - Shannon L. Alder
A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live. - Auliq-Ice
I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection. - Amin Maalouf
Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection's intimately. The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through.As Above So Below,As Within So Without,The Monad of Experience. - Kevin John Kull
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. - Edmund Burke
In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality. - Dada Bhagwan
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating. - Graeme Roberts
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. - Alexander Pope
Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. - Dada Bhagwan
When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment - Augustine of Hippo
Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. - Abhijit Naskar
There's a fine line between deserving and just desserts. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. - David Alejandro Fearnhead
We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. - Thomas Sterner
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
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people. - Charles T. Munger
Not only is forgiveness the most tender part of love, it is always a choice and always accompanied by unconditional love. May you always be forgiving,kind and gracious, especially when others are undeserving. - Rhonda Louise Robbins
Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating. - Debasish Mridha
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good. - Jim George
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God... - Gary Thomas
If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities. - Hugh Coolican
Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference. - Farshad Asl
The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it. - Abraham Hicks
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity. - Amit Ray
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. - Hermann Hesse
The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place. - Roshan Sharma
Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is. - Thomas Hardy
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