Quotes with serve

  • In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
  • Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
  • Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
  • 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.
  • I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
  • The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
  • It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
  • And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
  • 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.
  • Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Einstein And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Mark Zuckerberg I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
    The Telegraph, 7 november 2014
    Mark Zuckerberg
    American internet entrepreneur (1984 - )
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sallust We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Joseph Addison What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Al Capone When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Lord George Byron A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • St. John of the Cross Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Albert Einstein According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alva Myrdal All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Alanis Morissette And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Aesop Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bhagavad Gita 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
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alan Cohen Be at peace with your choices. They all serve you.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Milton Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
    Paradise lost (1667) I, 263
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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