Leadership And Service Quotes:

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Leadership, Insperational, Helping Others, Leadership And Service, Leadership Development

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Leadership, Money, Integrity, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspirational Service

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Good leaders must first become good servants.

- Robert K. Greenleaf

topic: Leadership, Firsts, Good Leader, Customer Experience, Inspirational Service

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Service, Acts Of Kindness

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

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.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Social Entrepreneurship, Making A Difference In The World

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Charity, Philanthropy, Inspiring Volunteer, Leadership And Service, Community Service

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Greatness, Determined, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Volunteer, Leadership And Service

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

You only need a heart full of grace

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Heart, Grace, Needs, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Influencing People, Inspiring Leader

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

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

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

- John J. Pershing

topic: Leadership, Leader, Troops, Inspiring Leader, Leadership And Service

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Organization, Impact, Leadership And Service, Leadership Development

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

- Harvey S. Firestone

topic: Leadership, Helping Others, People, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership And Service

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

- Dee Hock

topic: Motivation, Discipline, Over You, Leadership And Service, Subordinates

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Children, Giving Up, Perfect, Leadership And Service, Selflessness