Excellent Quotes
1. “Good leaders must first become good servants.”
― Robert K. Greenleaf
2. “True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich
the leader.”
― John C. Maxwell
3. “Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.”
― M. Scott Peck
4.”We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can
learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before
we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.”
― William Arthur Ward
5. “My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you
become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is
as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work
out of them.”
― William Cohen
6. “People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
― John C. Maxwell
7. “If leadership serves only the leader, it will fail. Ego satisfaction,
financial gain, and status can all be valuable tools for a leader, but if they become the only motivations, they will eventually destroy a leader. Only when service for a common good is the primary purpose are you truly leading.”
― Sheila Murray Bethel
8. “A person who is worthy of being a leader wants power not for himself, but in order to be of service.”
― U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
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9. “A new moral principle is emerging which holds that the only authority
deserving one’s allegiance is that which is freely and knowingly granted
by the led to the leader in response to, and in proportion to, the clearly
evident servant stature of the leader. Those who choose to follow this
principle will not casually accept the authority of existing institutions.
Rather, they will freely respond only to individuals who are chosen as
leaders because they are proven and trusted servants. To the extent that
this principle prevails in the future, the only truly viable institutions will
be those that are predominantly servant-led.”
― Robert K. Greenleaf
10. “Servant-leadership 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
11. “The quality of a true warrior is that he is in service to a purpose
greater than himself; that is, to a transcendent cause.”
― Robert Bly
12. “Ultimately, a leader is not judged so much by how well he or she leads, but by how well he or she serves.”
― Kevin Cashman
13. “It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
― Albert Einstein
14. “I don’t think there’s anything as wonderful in life as being able to help someone else.”
― Betty Ford
15. “The noblest question in the world is, What Good may I do in it?”
― Benjamin Franklin
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