Servant Quotes
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.
Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.
If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.
Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.
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.
The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.
Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.
Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?
Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey
A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
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.
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.
To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.
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.
They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:
Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.
Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.
If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.
Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers
Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided
Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks
Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All
