Leadership & Management: Servant Leadership Quotes

"Our company has to be a company that enables its people"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Good servants frequently make good masters"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I believe, if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"We would rather have our employees running our business"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution!"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people"

John Hume, Politician

"The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it"

Edwin Land, Inventor

"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding, and express those challenges in terms of serving other people"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"People learn to lead because they care about something"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable"

Pat Riley, Coach

"In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate, and more responsive to the American people"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role"

Ricardo Montalban, Actor

"I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

"Our core idea is to dignify the value of a person. I am here today to listen to your wishes and concerns"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

"A true king is measured not by his wealth or his power, but by his wisdom and his compassion"

Philip III, Royalty

"To govern is to serve"

Philip III, Royalty

"To be king is to be a servant of God"

Philip II of Spain, Royalty

"Let no one think that he rules who is not able to serve"

Philip II of Spain, Royalty

"Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"I'm not in front of the camera; they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"If there's one thing I hope people are certain of, it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer"

Laura Miller, Politician

"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me"

Black Elk, Leader

"All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position"

Tim Scott, Politician

"Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can"

Richard Scaife, Businessman

"I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

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