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Quotes About Leadership

There is a transcendent power in example.
~ Sophie Swetchine
It is impossible to reign innocently.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
~ Brian Houston
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.
~ Mike Cloud
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
~ Thomas Sowell
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
~ Aesop
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
~ Lincoln Steffens
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
~ Vladimir Putin
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~ John Steinbeck
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~ Edward Abbey
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
~ Black Elk
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
~ Elizabeth May
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
~ Narendra Modi
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
~ Saul Alinsky
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
~ Barbara Tuchman
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
~ Bayard Rustin
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
~ Frances Hesselbein
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
~ Sam Harris
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
~ David Ben-Gurion