Quotes About Leadership

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

You have the power to take our country back.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

Power is as power does.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.