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There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Sep 28, 2025
Serving others prepares you to lead others.
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Servant-leader ship 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.
It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.
As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
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.
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