Servant Leadership
89 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 66 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Servant Leadership
- Caring for other people is daring to put others before yourself. When you dare to care for others, you put yourself into a position for God to take care of you.
- Following is a form of serving that becomes the template for leading.
- The difference between calling and career is not found in roles and titles; it is found in our attitude. Add value before you ask to be valued.
- Your assignment is not about what you do, it’s about who you are responsible for.
- Your highest and best use is when what you do best is used for the best interest of others.
- We need to get helped so we can help others! Helped people help others!
- Whatever you care about gives you the capacity to change it for the better. Whatever you don’t care about, will never change.
- People don’t care how much you know about anything until they know how much you care about them.
- When you serve others, you create excellence that can be followed. (Your Divine Fingerprint, p.112)
- The key to having the best of what you want in life is for you to help make the best of what others want to happen...happen for them.
- If you will make miracles happen for others that would not have happened without you, God will make happen for you what would have not happened without Him.
- Seek to serve others in areas and ways they need help, based on what you believe is possible for yourself.
- Servant-leadership is your gateway to greatness.
- A Servant-Leader is someone who is called by God with others to BE great. They willingly come under spiritual authority with the attitude of serving others. They have a passion for excellence and a desire to lead. They choose to take the form of a 'slave', to be one whose will is swallowed up in the will of another. They become a living sacrifice whereby their 'sacred' life dispels all mediocrity.
- Energy-Producers are people who speak BLESSING over people's lives and ENCOURAGE them by proclaiming who they are in God.
- Find a need and lead yourself to lead it.
- We need to help others feel Important!
- Servant-Leadership is a noble ascent of the mind and heart to live life with a transcendent cause. It is born out of a grateful heart and expressed through a spirit of Generosity. Through Servant-Leadership one’s life becomes “sacred despoilment” of mediocrity. Servant-leadership is an initiation of Greatness…by the one serving and is intended to benefit the one being served. However, the real beneficiary of Servant-leadership is the one who leads by serving. Servant-Leadership is the most effective way to develop personal greatness that generates competence, attitude and skills that empowers one to find a need and not just fill it, but lead it. By doing so, the one who leads himself to serve others, leads others by example and creates an atmosphere of excellence where quality breeds excellence and excellence breeds quality. Servant-leadership as a modus operandi, develops the quality of indispensability that is the cause for all long-term growth and success both personally and professionally.
- To care is to dare beyond yourself.
- Serving kills the "It's all about me" self that needs to die.
- You will never be tough enough to rule on a greater measure, until you serve on a level that is greater than yourself.
- Consider others before yourself.
- God's servants are not people who just believe in Him or people who simply strive to live with a biblical world-view and seek to do the right thing. God's servants are people who live with a transcendent cause - a cause beyond themselves. Who give their time, talent, and treasure to God. Who live not to make their own dreams come true, but to make God's Dream come true, through how they live.
Other voices on Servant Leadership
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
- Be a good servant and you will be great; be the best possible servant and you will occupy the highest possible place. .
- Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
- Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
- Get hold of the spirit of wanting to help somebody else.
- Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become
- He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many.
- He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
- He who is truly great is never too great to give attention to the lowly.
- He who wishes to rule over the people must speak as if below them. He who wishes to lead the people must walk as if behind them. So the Sage rules over the people but he does not weigh them down. He leads the people but he does not block their way.
- I’d rather be the most helpful guy in the room than the smartest guy in the room.
- Instead of the question, "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do?"
- It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
- It is the function of every leader to make those happy whom he may be called upon to lead.
- It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.
- Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.