Quotations for Servant-Leaders: New Free ebook

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Quotations: adages and aphorisms – epigrams and epitaphs – quips and witticisms – maxims, mottos and memes.

Human beings have enjoyed quotations for thousands of years.

Quotations can inspire us, inform us and entertain us. When shared – posted on social media or hung outside a cube, for example – they can tell the world something about our inner selves or connect us to other like-minded people. Facebook profiles have a spot to put your favorite quotation. Gravestones were publishing quotations long before the internet.

This book contains quotations for servant-leaders. It’s a companion to the printed book, Be the Leader You Want to Follow: Your Servant Leadership Guidebook, to be published this year.

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Quotations for Servant-Leaders

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

“The great leader is seen as servant first, and that simple fact is the key to greatness.”

ROBERT K. GREENLEAF

“The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one’s own follies

MADELEINE DE SOUVRÉ

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

ANNE FRANK

“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”

BILLIE JEAN KING

“Persuasion skills exert a far greater influence over others’ behaviors than formal power structure do.”

ROBERT CIALDINI

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”

PETER DRUCKER

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

WILLA CATHER

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

URSULA K. LE GUIN

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence.”

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

HELEN KELLER

“There are no great leaders without great results.”

CHERYL BACHELDER

It's about improved lives for a wide audience—employees, customers, vendors, shareholders communities where your organization operates. Servant-leaders measure their individual success by the success of those they serve.

Joe Iarocci, author of Servant Leadership in the Workplace: A Brief Introduction

Cairnway offers practical servant leadership learning programs for individuals and teams that seek superior results.

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