Servant Leadership Quotes

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

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.

No time for anything, little time for everything

Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

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.

It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It’s the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership is service!

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

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!

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to sleep.

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.

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.

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

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.

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?

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

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!

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

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

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

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

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

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

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.

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who deeply understands our joys and pains or hopes and desires, and who is willing and able to walk with us, that is the one to whom we gladly give authority and whose 'subjects' we are willing to be.It is the compassionate authority that empowers, encourages, calls forth hidden gifts, and enables great things to happen. True spiritual authorities are located in the point of an upside-down triangle, supporting and holding into the light everyone they offer their leadership to.

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

Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart.

To serve the many, you first serve the few.

Leading by example through "Servant Leadership" used to be a badge of honor that distinguished you from the Corps of the Blue Falcon. Present day I see the ranks of the Blue Falcon surging in a flagless flotilla of blurred morals, a low tide of integrity, and selfish ethics adrift with no anchorage. The pulse of the led is directly influenced by the organizational heart rate of the leader.

Leadership comes at a cost.It’s called servant leadership.

Serving is the best kind of Leading.