Servant Leader Quotes

Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

Macromanage, Not Micromanage

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.

Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from.

If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is

Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

Are you serving others or your are being served by others?

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

Don’t believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.

Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people.

Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you’ve left their presence.

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Love may challenge and love may correct but love will never shame. Love may call us out to uncomfortable places but love will never cast us aside. Love may demand but will never demean. Love will never ask us to dim our light lest we shine too brightly. Love will never ask us to be less than we were created to be.By this we know God. By this we follow Jesus. By this we serve one another.Love. Not fear.

If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter’s jacket and got back to my proper calling!

The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks

f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

To serve the many, you first serve the few.

The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?

Lord grant me a humble spirit and a willing heart.