Serving Leaders Quotes

#1. Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

James C. Collins

#2. Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

John Stahl-Wert

#3. Serving Leaders direct credit to others.

Ken Jennings

#4. Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

John Stahl-Wert

#5. Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

John Stahl-Wert

#6. Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

John Stahl-Wert

#7. A call to duty, a call for service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

#9. As fast as they peep up let's cut 'em down.

Thomas Middleton

#10. Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

Erik Erikson

#11. You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Pope John Paul II

#12. Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?

Anne Perry

#13. I don't know who moved first, maybe him, maybe me, but we were zigzagging through the hallway, our lips locked, my back against the wall, then his, banging and colliding in the narrow space until we got to the bedroom.

Leylah Attar

#14. I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing.
I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell.
As i love you,"He told me.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. I wish you much more grace for all your works.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Chip Conley

#17. Roxana, when you go back to America, please tell others that our country is not only about the nuclear issue--it's also about people like us." -- my former cellmate, Mahvash Sabet, who is serving 20 years in prison in Iran as one of the leaders of the minority Baha'i faith

Roxana Saberi

#18. Those who serve others will be served.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I'm moving away from time. Or, is it that time is moving away from me?

Leigh Hershkovich

#20. He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#21. From that high up, language or the lack of it didn't matter much. The swirling currents of people were way better than anything on TV. Even on cable. Except, possibly, the Armenian Channel.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#22. As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.

Farshad Asl

#23. The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.

Gangaji

#24. I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.
A Knight's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer

#25. Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Sue Mallory

#26. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

Onyi Anyado

#27. Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

George F. Will

#28. The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

Michael Faraday

#29. I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

Janet Evanovich

#30. You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't ... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Witold Gombrowicz

#31. If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

Roger Ailes

#32. Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

Brian Houston