89 Quotes About Servant-leadership

Its been my experience during my military career that a leader displaying a THIRST for power will ultimately have a APPETITE for destruction to go along with it.

The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.

Leadership by serving doesn't always feel like the best option, but it is always is your best option.

From the prophets of Israel Lincoln had learned the note will idea that there can be serving people, with responsibility to the entire "family of man".