#servant

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#civil #civil servants #crisis #decades #develop

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #heart #poverty #servanthood #faith

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #servanthood #spiritual-life #wounds #faith

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard. ↗

— Colin Clark

#faithfulness #servanthood #faith

Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools. ↗

— Martin Luther

#servant-leader #faith

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. ↗

— Aesop

#fire #good #masters #our #passions