Servant Leadership Quotes

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

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

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.

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.

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.

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.