Quote by

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
– Megan Whalen Turner

Related Quotes:

  1. He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too. – Megan Whalen Turner
  2. It isn’t an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don’t know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. – Megan Whalen Turner
  3. Sometimes, if you want to change a man’s mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. – Megan Whalen Turner
  4. I think a good book is a good book forever.I don’t think they get less good because times change. – Megan Whalen Turner
  5. The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king’s hand at work. – Megan Whalen Turner
  6. These people make my family look easy to get along with. – Megan Whalen Turner
  7. If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive. – Megan Whalen Turner
  8. But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. – Megan Whalen Turner
  9. … I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. – Megan Whalen Turner
  10. The Lord of Rags and Tatters. – Megan Whalen Turner
  11. He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn’t ever quit. – Megan Whalen Turner
  12. Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
  13. None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. – Anonymous
  14. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own gl???, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare
  15. A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
  16. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  17. 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
  18. Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  19. If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself. – William Hurrell Mallock
  20. She didn’t want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink. – SA Tawks
  21. The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. – Augustine Birrell
  22. Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
  23. He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act – Plato
  24. When you -˜oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes. – Dada Bhagwan
  25. Dare to make wishes. The fulfillment of your wishes is possible. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  26. Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities. – Amit Kalantri
  27. Our wishes are endless. God gives the best of the wishes. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  28. Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate. – Shannon A Thompson
  29. It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. – Robert E Lee
  30. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
  31. 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
  32. The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. – Marquis de Sade
  33. The state was made for man, not man for state. – Albert Einstein
  34. So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,- I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.-œI choose you. – CJ Duggan
  35. Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. – EM Forster
  36. None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself – Richard Spinos
  37. We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer. – Paul David Tripp
  38. We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They’ll have to offer a well-presented theatre show. – Syd Barrett
  39. Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. – Shannon L Alder
  40. When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. – Debasish Mridha

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , , ,