Quotes About Leadership

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Power wears out those who don't have it

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Business is in itself a power.

Great men are almost always bad men.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.