A Quote by Harry Houdini

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

Harry Houdini

Quote Topics

Disheartening Disloyalty Happen Most Performer Public Servants Things Trusted

Quote Author

Harry Houdini
Hungarian - Entertainer
March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.

Epifanio de los Santos

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Mitt Romney

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Robert Quillen

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

Chuck Schumer

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.

Frank Pavone

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Daniel Akaka

The area I hope we can learn most from Singapore is in the productivity and efficiency of its public servants.

Ko Wen-je

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Denis Leary

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Willa Cather

Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Victoria Chang

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

Jonathan Carroll

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

Vito Acconci

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

Mortimer Zuckerman

A Quote by Harry Houdini

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors