Quotes About Leadership

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Never mistake the power of influence

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.