Quotes About Servant Leadership

#1. Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

John Piper

#2. Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Dave Ramsey

#3. I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

Mike Pence

#4. Principle-centred leadership, consistent leadership, stewardship and servant leadership are all values-driven. Always go back to reflect on your beliefs and values as you go about your leadership responsibilities.

Archibald Marwizi

#5. Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#6. Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Michael Bergdahl

#7. Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

Bill Hybels

#8. APM focuses on team management, from building self-organizing teams to developing a servant leadership style. It is both more difficult, and ultimately more rewarding than managing tasks.

Jim Highsmith

#9. Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

M. Scott Peck

#10. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.

Geoff Watts

#11. 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.

Irene Rosenfeld

#12. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

Dave Ramsey

#13. The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

Mike Huckabee

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

Vern Dosch

#16. The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it's the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference.

Ken Jennings

#17. Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Warren G. Bennis

#18. Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.

Todd Stocker

#19. What can we do? It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.

Ron Suskind

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

Geraldine Brooks

#21. Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

James Hunter

#22. Don't Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Miles Anthony Smith

#23. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Tony Hsieh

#24. 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.

Geraldine Brooks

#25. 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.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.

Farshad Asl

#27. You Either Trust Someone or You Don't

Miles Anthony Smith

#28. If you can't handle others' disapproval, then leadership isn't for you.

Miles Anthony Smith

#29. Serving is the best kind of Leading.

Todd Stocker

#30. Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Miles Anthony Smith

#31. Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

George Friedman

#32. Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#34. Serving others prepares you to lead others.

Jim George

#35. 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

#36. Smaller Is Smarter: Hint, Bigger Is Not

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

George H. W. Bush

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

Aleksandra Layland

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

Mollie Marti

#41. Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Ann Cotton

#42. Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

John Piper

#43. Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame

Miles Anthony Smith

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

John Howard Griffin

#45. Finish Well; Anyone Can Start Well

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Henry Kimsey-House

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

Ron Suskind

#48. What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

Dan B. Allender

#49. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#50. From the prophets of Israel Lincoln had learned the note will idea that there can be serving people, with responsibility to the entire "family of man".

Elton Trueblood

#51. 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.

Robert A. Caro

#52. Stop Destroying Shareholder Value

Miles Anthony Smith

#53. This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Nick Nolte

#54. Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks

Miles Anthony Smith

#55. 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?

Eric Greitens

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

David Brooks

#57. If Everything's a Rush, Nothing Is

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Tom Clancy

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

Geraldine Brooks

#60. Show Us, Don't Tell Us

Miles Anthony Smith

#61. To serve the many, you first serve the few.

Ken Jennings

#62. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership, and the best type of leader, is a servant leader. For me, my life as a kingmaker includes serving

Cary Hokama

#63. She began to notice his servant's heart, his humility, and his leadership. This attraction felt different from her prior experiences of liking guys. "Before it had always been, 'Here's the guy I want!' But this time I thought, 'Here's a man I could follow.

Joshua Harris

#64. Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

James Hunter

#65. 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.

Paul C. Nagel

#66. 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.

Scott Hammerle

#67. We all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Albert Baylis

#68. The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#69. Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

James Hunter

#70. Leadership is about being a servant first.

Allen West

#71. It's up to you, not about you

Sonya Withrow

#72. The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

Guy Kawasaki

#73. Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided

Miles Anthony Smith

#74. Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#75. 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.

Miles Anthony Smith

#76. 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.

Henna Inam

#77. Are you serving others or your are being served by others?

Saji Ijiyemi

#78. 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.

Mark Miller

#79. Leadership is first and foremost bout character, one who is in power but not subordinate to it, one has control of money but is not lured by it, one whose position opens all doors but prefers the simplicity of lifestyle, and one who is followed by many but takes the heart of a servant.

Wilfrido V. Villacorta

#80. Abdication Isn't Empowerment

Miles Anthony Smith

#81. If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Guy Kawasaki

#82. 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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#83. Macromanage, Not Micromanage

Miles Anthony Smith

#84. The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#85. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

A.J. Darkholme

#86. Selfish Apologies Aren't Apologies at All

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Watchman Nee

#88. When do I start? is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war.

Steve Sheinkin

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

Dan Jones

#90. Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

Miles Anthony Smith

#91. No time for anything, little time for everything

Sonya Withrow