Servant Leader Quotes:

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

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Leader, Servant Leadership, Servant, Servant Leader

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

topic: Jesus, People, Leader, Servant Leader

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

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

topic: Winning, People, Goal, Servant Leader

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Coach

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

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

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

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

- Robert K. Greenleaf

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

topic: Leader, Feelings, Want, Servant Leadership, Servant Leader

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

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Kids, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership And Management

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

topic: Leadership, Patriotic, Voice, Listening To Others, Listening Ear

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

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Inspiring, Earth, Pay, Women Leadership, Servant Leadership

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

- Ken Blanchard

source: Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

topic: Leader, Special, Life Is, Servant Leader

Good leaders must first become good servants.

- Robert K. Greenleaf

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Managing People, Funny Leadership

You only need a heart full of grace

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

- Marian Anderson

topic: Leadership, Understanding, Needs, Women Leadership, Best Leader

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

- Michael Bergdahl

topic: Teamwork, Secret, Foundation, Servant Leadership, Synergy

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

- Robert K. Greenleaf

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

topic: Sleep, Ego, Servant Leadership, Can't Sleep, Servant Leader

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

- Tom Peters

topic: Organization, Leader, Entrepreneur, Servant Leadership, Servant Leader

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

- Jim George

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

topic: Serving Others, Servant Leadership, Servant Leader

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

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

topic: Leader, Choices, Feelings, Aspire, Servant Leadership

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

topic: Leadership, Hate, People, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leading On

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Joy Of Giving, Spiritual Soul

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

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

- Robert K. Greenleaf

topic: Community, Behavior, Ethical, Ethical Behavior, Trust Respect

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush (2014). “41: A Portrait of My Father”, p.186, Crown

topic: People, Use Of Power, Servant Leadership, Servanthood, Servant Leader

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Leadership, Motivation, People, Leadership Skills, Qualities Of A Leader

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

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

- Ken Blanchard

source: Twitter post from Mar 17, 2015

topic: Baby, Journey, Self, Survival Mode, Servant Leader

I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

- Tulsi Gabbard

source: "Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu In Congress, Uses Bhagavad Gita At Swearing-In" By Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

topic: Country, Teaching, Office, Oath Of Office, Servant Leader

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

- Aberjhani

source: Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.35, Lulu.com

topic: Art, Leader, Humanity, Servant Leader