Servant Leadership Quotes
Servant Leadership Quote of the day
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.
The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:
You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.
David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
Its been my experience during my military career that a leader displaying a THIRST for power will ultimately have a APPETITE for destruction to go along with it.
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.
Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.
To serve the many, you first serve the few.
A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.
Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart.