Servant Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Every good servant does not all commands.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Obedience, Very Good

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 1, l. 6

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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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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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Men, Society, Different

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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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-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

  Leadership, Mean, Groups

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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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• 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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• The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Powerful, Mind

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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• I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fighting, Conquer

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• Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

  Guru Nanak

  Song, Names, Joy

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• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, People

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Hands, Effort, Unseen

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• Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

  Bill Johnson

  Kings, Heart

  Bill Johnson (2015). “The Power That Changes the World: Creating Eternal Impact in the Here and Now”, p.54, Chosen Books

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• If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

  Francis Bacon

  Masters, Ifs, Covetousness

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Church, States

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

  J. D. Greear

  God, Christian, Debt

  J.D. Greear (2014). “Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You is Better than Jesus Beside You”, p.58, Zondervan

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Servant Of God, Church Today

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2016

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• Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• 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

  Real, Leader, Wish

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• Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Devil, Rewards

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Upstairs

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• Servants honor their master by their service.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Honor, Masters

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