Roberto Benigni Quotes

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

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.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

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

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

It's service, not status, that counts.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.

Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

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.