Quotes About Leadership

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Politics is activity in relation to power