Serve Quotes

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. (Aesop)
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. View quote
Aristotle
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. View quote
Franz Kafka
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
Fidel Castro
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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. View quote
Ivan Illich
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
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. (Arthur Ashe)
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. View quote
John Milton
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. View quote
Thornton Wilder
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. View quote
Montesquieu
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. View quote
Thomas Malory
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. (Jamie Zawinski)
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
José Martí
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. View quote
Thomas Fuller