servant-leadership

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people.

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who deeply understands our joys and pains or hopes and desires, and who is willing and able to walk with us, that is the one to whom we gladly give authority and whose 'subjects' we are willing to be.It is the compassionate authority that empowers, encourages, calls forth hidden gifts, and enables great things to happen. True spiritual authorities are located in the point of an upside-down triangle, supporting and holding into the light everyone they offer their leadership to.

Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It__ the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership is service!

He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you__e closed for the day and flips the board.

f you are too good to look after God__ trash, you are not good enough to look after God__ treasure.

If you are too good to look after God__ trash, you are not good enough to look after God__ treasure.

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice_ there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others___specially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart.

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.