Hampton House
Butler University
"Such are the wondrous ways in which leaders do their work - when they know who they are and resolve to be their own men [women] and will accept making their way to their goal by one action at a time, with a lot of frustration along the way." - Robert K. Greenleaf

Quotes on Service, Leadership,
& Servant-Leadership

"To know is to comprehend. Do you know, do you comprehend, in this moment, who or what you serve? We must all be serving someone or something. Whom or what are you choosing to serve right now? It takes courage to ask this question of yourself. But without courage, you can't practice any other value consistently." - Maya Angelou

"Leadership is a serious meddling in other people's lives." - Max Depree

"Vision without action is daydreaming, but action without vision is just random activity." - Joel Barkers

"Responsible people build; they do not destroy. They are moved by the heart. The prime test of rightness of an act is, how will it affect people; are lives moved toward nobility?" - Robert K. Greenleaf

"To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work." - Sister Mary Lauretta

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt

"One of the qualities of a life style of greatness is the ability to know with some certainty the solid ground one stands on at any one time. It gives one a toughness of mind with which one looks out upon a seething troubled world with a quiet eye and asks the meaning of it all..." - Robert K. Greenleaf

"We can do no great things - only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa

"Work is applied effort; it is whatever we put ourselves into, whatever we expend our energy on for the sake of accomplishing or achieving something. Work in this fundamental sense is not what we do for a living but what we do with our living." - William J. Bennett

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Indira Ghandi

"Life can be more whole for those who try, regardless of the outcome." - Robert K. Greenleaf

"We can do no great things - only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa

"When I give, I give myself." - Walt Whitman

"The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit." - Lee Bolman & Terence Deal

"The ultimate test of entheos, however, is an intuitive feeling of oneness, of wholeness, of rightness; but not necessarily comfort of ease." - Robert K. Greenleaf

"Work is applied effort; it is whatever we put ourselves into, whatever we expend energy on for the sake of accomplishing or achieving something. Work in this fundamental sense is not what we do for a living but what we do with out living." - William Bennett

"Humanitarianism consists of this principle: That a man is never sacrificed to an end." - Albert Schweitzer

"Since the test results of one's actions is usually long delayed, the faith that sustains the choice of the nobler hypothesis is psychological self-insight. This is the most dependable part of the true servant." - Robert K. Greenleaf

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." - Sondra Thiederman

"When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be." - John Heider





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