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Quotes About Leadership

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
~ Dalai Lama
I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
~ Winston Churchill
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~ Thomas Szasz
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
~ Ralph Nader
Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.
~ Gloria Feldt
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
~ Walt Whitman Rostow
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they
~ John Keats
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
~ Kanye West
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
~ Herb Kelleher
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
~ Maggie Kuhn
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.
~ Narendra Modi
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
~ C. S. Lewis
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
~ Alex Ferguson
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
~ Edward Abbey
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
~ Seneca the Younger
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...
~ Lord Acton
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
~ Christiane Amanpour
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
~ Timothy Keller
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.
~ Daniel Webster
Politics is activity in relation to power
~ Francis Parker Yockey