Quotes About Leadership

The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.