Quotes About Leadership

Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

You have the power to help people become winners.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Absolute power demoralizes.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.