Top 20 Servant Leadership Quotes & Sayings to Motivate You

Inspiring Servant Leadership Quotes

• “Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.” – Mollie Marti

• “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

• “In the wired world of the twenty-first century, advancing shared values creates value.” -Serve to Lead

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. -Mahatma Gandhi

• “Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself—to serve.” ― Wm. Paul Young

• “It’s not about trying to find something to help you be a more effective leader. It’s about trying to be a better person. The other will follow.” – James A. Autry in Practicing Servant Leadership

• “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

• “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

• Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

• “You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar

• “If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.” – Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Great Quotes About Servant Leadership

• “The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.” – Carla Nortcutt

• “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

• “Twenty-first-century leadership relationship dynamics are from the bottom up rather than the top down; from the outside in, rather than the inside out.” – James M. Strock in Serve to Lead

• “People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.” ― John C. Maxwell

• “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker Washington

• “The first and most important choice a leader makes is the choice to serve, without which one’s capacity to lead is severely limited.” -Robert Greenleaf

• “Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on the planet.” ― Marian Wright Edelman

• “The servant leader believes that ‘my success is your success.’” – Anonymous

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. -Laozi

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