Minister Quotes

• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Never
  • Minister
  • Prime

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Grown

• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • King
  • Audiences
  • Sources

• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Order
  • Means
  • Carry

• We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Believe
  • Allah

• Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Become
  • Chief
  • Minister

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• The three foreign ministers and Javier Solana just had an hour and 20 minute meeting with the new foreign minister of Iran, ... Everybody knows the efforts that the EU-3 has put in (to defuse the crisis) ... We look forward to the meeting later on.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Efforts
  • Minister
  • Javier Solana

• I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Minister
  • Staff
  • Mitchell Sharp

• A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Humble
  • Minister
  • Appointment

• I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Politician
  • Chief
  • Indigenous

• Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Give
  • Minister

• Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Countries
  • Minister
  • Admitting

• My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Days

• A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chief
  • Warfare
  • Commander

• I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

  

  Little Richard
  • Conductor
  • Evangelist
  • Revivals

• Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Fair Spirit

• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Joy
  • Dependent
  • Recreation

• My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Minister
  • Disappeared

• My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • School
  • Father
  • Radio

• Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Music
  • School
  • Father

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