The Servant Leadership Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Serving is the best kind of Leading.

Todd Stocker

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Tony Hsieh

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

James Hunter

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

Geraldine Brooks

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Bill Hybels

#16. Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame

Miles Anthony Smith

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

Michael Bergdahl

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Mollie Marti

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

Aleksandra Layland

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

Mike Pence

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

Ken Jennings

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Dave Ramsey

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

John Piper

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

James Hunter

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

Archibald Marwizi

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Steve Sheinkin

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

Watchman Nee

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

Ken Jennings

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

Warren G. Bennis

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Guy Kawasaki