Servant Leader Quotes

• ...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

  Tony Hsieh

  Leader, Servant, Servant Leadership

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• As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jesus

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• 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

  Winning, Goal, People

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leader, Feelings, Want

  "The power of servant-leadership". Book by Robert K. Greenleaf, 1998.

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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  Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Inspiring, Earth, Pay

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• Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leader, Special, Life Is

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
  of those who would be affected by it

  Marian Anderson

  Leadership, Education, Understanding

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

  Michael Bergdahl

  Teamwork, Secret, Foundation

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• Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Sleep, Ego, Servant Leadership

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.20, Paulist Press

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• Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

  Tom Peters

  Organization, Entrepreneur, Leader

  Tom Peters “Excellence Now: Purpose”, New Word City

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• Serving others prepares you to lead others.

  Jim George

  Servant Leadership, Serving Others, Serving

  Jim George (2008). “The Bare Bones Bible® Handbook for Teens: Getting to Know Every Book in the Bible”, p.35, Harvest House Publishers

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• 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

  Change, Leadership, Choices

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.123, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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