Servanthood Quotes

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

— John C. Maxwell

“We have all been called to be foot-washers". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]”

— R. Alan Woods

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

— George W. Bush

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

— Hans Finzel

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

— Max De Pree

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

— Bill Johnson

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

— Douglas Groothuis

“Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.”

— Duane Elmer

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the…

— John Piper

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

— Dave Ramsey

“Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.”

— John Piper

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".”

— Davis Bunn

God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant…

— Ibn Ata Allah

“No truth is more pervasive in Scripture and Christian tradition than this one—that real freedom is found in obedience and servanthood. And…

— Roger Olson

“Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded…

— Duane Elmer

“I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble…

— Andrew Murray

“Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively…

— John Piper

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly…

— Charles Stanley

The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that…

— Ibn Ata Allah

“Love may challenge and love may correct but love will never shame. Love may call us out to uncomfortable places but love…

— Peggy Haymes

“The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by…

— Gayle D. Erwin

“Don’t we see that men’s rightful task is to go out to work and wear themselves out trying to accumulate wealth, as…

— Moderata Fonte

Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships…

— Millard Fuller

I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal…

— Dick Bennett

“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.…

— Brennan Manning

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what…

— Anonymous