These minister quotes will inspire you. Minister (in certain countries) a head of a government department.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging minister quotes, minister sayings, and minister proverbs.
Best Minister Quotes
- “Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations” ~ Hideki Tojo
- “What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.” ~ Claire Trevor
- “Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.” ~ Roy H. Williams
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“When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.” ~ Ralph Washington Sockman
- “It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.” ~ Gerrit Smith
- “One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.” ~ Indira Gandhi
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“Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.” ~ Geoff Hoon
- “My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.” ~ Fritz Sauckel
- “Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name” ~ Orson Pratt
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“My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I’m happy with what I’ve done for Singapore.” ~ Goh Chok Tong
- “One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.” ~ Alex Cox , Prime minister quotes
- “A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister’s wife.” ~ Anna Garlin Spencer
- “This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of… well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.” ~ Alan Hovhaness
- “I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.” ~ Romano Prodi
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“The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.” ~ Anatoly Chubais
- “On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.” ~ Kim Campbell
- “I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king’s ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.” ~ Robert Walpole
- “Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.” ~ W. Averell Harriman
- “In Yugoslavia, I’d asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces… Nobody wanted to send troops.” ~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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“I’d be prouder still to say I was Canada’s 10th woman prime minister.” ~ Kim Campbell
- “The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.” ~ Anita Diament
- “My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.” ~ Colin Firth
- “First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.” ~ Hans Frank
- “What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?” ~ Lord Mountbatten
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“At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.” ~ Joanna Southcott
- “If your only objective is to be popular, you’re going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.” ~ Brian Mulroney
- “New-Year’s Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.” ~ Joanna Southcott
- “I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I’ve done pretty well with being a minister’s son. And now I know I’m pretty darn good at playing a woman too.” ~ Barry Watson
- “My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher’s kid.” ~ Dorothy Malone
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“There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.” ~ Mario Monti
- “I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.” ~ David Blunkett
- “I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.” ~ Eduard Shevardnadze
- “President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?” ~ Greta Van Susteren
- “No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.” ~ Robert Peel
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“I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.” ~ Lalu Prasad Yadav
- “Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.” ~ Kim Campbell
- “The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.” ~ Denis Thatcher
- “Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say ‘Bless You’.” ~ Bernard Levin
- “When I don’t make a decision, it’s not that I don’t think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision.” ~ P. V. Narasimha Rao
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“But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.” ~ George Whitefield
- “Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “God’s part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.” ~ Andrew Bonar
- “My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.” ~ Billy Graham
- “An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.” ~ Al Sharpton
- “I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.” ~ Emma Bonino
- “It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.” ~ Philip Gibbs
- “The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?” ~ Eric Idle
- “The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.” ~ Maurice Strong
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“Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.” ~ Brian Mulroney
- “In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.” ~ Anatoly Chubais
- “It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.” ~ Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
- “I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.” ~ Pierre Loti
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“I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he’s taking us.” ~ John Hewson
- “A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.” ~ Claud Cockburn
- “My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.” ~ Esther Williams
- “The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.” ~ Jack Layton
- “Of course, I’d have loved to be Prime Minister. But I’m not nursing a grievance.” ~ Kenneth Clarke
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“When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.” ~ Jeffrey Archer
- “I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.” ~ Kamisese Mara
- “In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.” ~ Albert Speer
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“You see, I was the son of a Baptist minister.” ~ DeForest Kelley
- “No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.” ~ William Feather
Minister is a person who performs religious ceremonies, especially in Protestant church services.
