Servant Leadership
89 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 66 from other voices.
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- Leadership is not a rank or position to be attained. Leadership is a service to be given.
- Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.
- Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child.
- No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
- Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free—and worth a fortune.
- Now the man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
- O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
- So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
- Submerge your own ambitions and help whoever you can in the company. Work together as a team.
- Success is the way you spend your minutes doing your best for others.
- Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
- The best leaders are servants at heart.
- The best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.
- The best way to be successful is to make others successful.
- The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.
- The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
- The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
- The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- The man or the woman who is not a servant is one who accomplishes nothing.
- The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
- The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.
- The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
- The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone succeed.
- There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
- True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
- What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
- When you approach a man, you should think not about how he can help you, but how you might serve and help him.
- Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right,--let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
- You can help your fellow-men: you must help your fellow-men; but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be.