Carl Jung Quotes

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.