Quotes about Service

As a leader, my goal is to help people, not make them happy.

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.

The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

Servant leaders should listen without judgment, be authentic, build community, share power, and develop people.

All great leaders are productive. However, it is possible to be a producer and not a leader. Personal success does not always translate into team success. Leadership is defined by what a person does with and for others. It is established by making the team better and more productive. It's measured by what the entire group accomplishes, not by the individual efforts of the person in charge. Good leadership is never based on what someone does by and for himself.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

My Influence My life shall touch a dozen lives Before this day is done. Leave countless marks of good or ill, E'er sets the evening sun. This, the wish I always wish, The prayer I always pray; Lord, may my life help others' lives It touches by the way.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.