Quotes About Leadership

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

One is always a good master when one isn't the master

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

Power is the crown that eats the head, "...

Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others.

You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country

Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.

As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, "I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

One must command from each what each can preform.

It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

Those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it.

The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.