Quotes About Leadership

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.