Top 70 Servant Leader Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.
Tulsi Gabbard
#3. Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
Ken Blanchard
#4. President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader ...
Aberjhani
#5. We practice mastering ourselves in the moment so that we can better open ourselves to being a servant leader and to harness our emotions and choose what to do with our reactions.
Lyssa Adkins
#6. It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
Ken Blanchard
#7. A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
Ken Blanchard
#9. The servant-leader is servant first ... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first ...
Robert K. Greenleaf
#10. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
Dave Ramsey
#11. Serving others prepares you to lead others.
Jim George
#12. Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.
James Hunter
#13. Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you've left their presence.
Mollie Marti
#15. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#16. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#17. 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
#19. If you can't handle others' disapproval, then leadership isn't for you.
Miles Anthony Smith
#23. Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?
Saji Ijiyemi
#24. 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
#26. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#27. 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
#29. He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#31. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#32. We have all been called to be foot-washers".
~R. Alan Woods [2006]
R. Alan Woods
#34. The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.
Max De Pree
#36. Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#37. A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.
Mollie Marti
#38. Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.
Joe Simpson
#39. The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.
Aleksandra Layland
#40. 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!
Graham Kerr
#41. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#43. Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?
Mollie Marti
#44. 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
#45. The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Nancy Pearcey
#46. The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
Mollie Marti
#48. I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
Pat Conroy
#49. What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader ... Let us become a real servant instead.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#50. To serve the many, you first serve the few.
Ken Jennings
#52. Jesus knew that the idea of leader as "loving servant of all" would not appeal to most people. Securing our own creature comforts is a much more common mission. But "servant" is His requirement for those who want to lead in His kingdom.
J. Oswald Sanders
#54. A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.
Wayne Mack
#55. The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.
Mollie Marti
#58. 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
#59. The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it's the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference.
Ken Jennings
#61. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#63. Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslave. This is a command, not a suggestion, and applies with special force to leaders.
Billy Graham
#64. greatest leader is the one who would be just as content as a servant.
J.L. Lyon
#65. Are you serving others or your are being served by others?
Saji Ijiyemi
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
Tony Gaskins
#69. Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
Aminu Kano
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