servant leadership quotes put others first

Good leaders must first become good servants. ~Robert Greenleaf

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. ~Rosalynn Carter:

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.~ Jim Rohn

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. ~George W. Bush

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. ~Dee Hock

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ~John Updike

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. MaxwellA good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves. ~unknown

Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals. ~Unknown

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. ~David J. Schwartz

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. ~Unknown

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved? ~Susan Jeffers

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. ~Brian Tracy

Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. ~Unknown

Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~Peter F. Drucker

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.~James L. Fisher

Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. Charles S. LauerThe first step to leadership is servant hood. ~John Maxwell

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