Top 79 Leadership Service Quotes
#1. Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#2. The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
Jim Webb
#3. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
Denise Morrison
#5. The bottom line is that you can't lead the person you can't serve!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
J. Oswald Sanders
#7. Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.
Artika R. Tyner
#8. The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
Ronald Kessler
#9. Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#10. This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
Nick Nolte
#11. When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.
Noel DeJesus
#12. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#13. A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
#14. You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.
Courtney Lynch
#16. It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership
Janna Cachola
#17. The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.
Don Cousins
#18. Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...
Assegid Habtewold
#19. [George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.
Bill Maher
#20. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.
Frank Wolf
#22. 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!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
J. Oswald Sanders
#26. Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Sonny Perdue
#28. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
John J. Pershing
#29. You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
Vincent De Paul
#30. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
#32. Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring
#33. Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.
Benjamin Franklin
#34. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami
#35. Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.
Charles Eisenstein
#37. You are born to build the society, not to follow it.
Abhijit Naskar
#38. EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.
GE Paulus
#39. You must be a servant if you want to be great in life
Sunday Adelaja
#41. The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.
J. Oswald Sanders
#42. The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.
John F. Kerry
#44. If you hold a leadership position but are not equipping the saints for the work of service, then you are not a leader.
Don Cousins
#45. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.
Amit Ray
#46. For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.
Debasish Mridha
#47. The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. To serve the many, you first serve the few.
Ken Jennings
#49. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
Criss Jami
#50. You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
Tom Vilsack
#52. Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
Andy Hargreaves
#53. Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
Tom Peters
#54. Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#55. The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Myles Munroe
#56. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals
#57. In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
Stephen Covey
#58. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#59. When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
Eric Schiffer
#61. Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?
Saji Ijiyemi
#62. Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you're doing,
but press on!
Deborah L. Parker
#63. Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
Vanna Bonta
#64. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
#66. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the 'least of these' and give voice to the voiceless.
Artika R. Tyner
#70. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?
Archibald Marwizi
#72. President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
Mark Udall
#73. Leadership is service, not position.
Tim Fargo
#75. The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
J. Oswald Sanders
#76. The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.
Mollie Marti
#77. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. Are you serving others or your are being served by others?
Saji Ijiyemi
#79. Leadership - in both the Service and the administration - often conveyed the message that bad behavior was truly bad only if it made headlines. I called it the Caesar mentality: Do as I say, not as I do, or off with your head.
Gary J. Byrne
