Robert K. Greenleaf Quotes
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.
Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.
Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.