Leadership & Management: Servant Leadership Quotes

"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation"

Kingman Brewster, Jr., Educator

"I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together"

John Dingell, Politician

"At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family, to which we all belong"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have, so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could"

Charles Erwin Wilson, Businessman

"While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community"

Burton Richter, Scientist

"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do"

Randy Johnson, Athlete

"I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play"

Eugene Ormandy, Musician

"If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress"

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician

"How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do"

Mike Huckabee, Politician

"I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"I have one president at a time. I only work for you"

Richard M. Helms, Celebrity

"Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation"

William L. Jenkins, Politician

"I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that"

Richard Farnsworth, Actor

"Good leaders must first become good servants"

Robert Greenleaf, Writer

"The true character of ministry is a servant's heart"

Harold Warner

"My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy, and holy"

Juliette G. Low

"To survive, men and business and corporations must serve"

John Henry Patterson, Businessman

"As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more, and the more I did, the more I wanted"

Monty Hall, Actor

"At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart"

Gresham Barrett, Politician

"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church, I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock"

Anna H. Shaw

"We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job, I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced"

Nia Long, Actress

"Who has not served cannot command"

John Florio, Writer

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