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Quotes About Power

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
~ Sun Tzu
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
~ H. Rap Brown
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
~ Cleopatra
I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.
~ Louis Riel
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.
~ Sun Tzu
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
~ Greg McKeown
What seems over your head is always under His feet.
~ Johnny Hunt
You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.
~ Johnny Hunt
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
~ Charles R. Schwab
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
~ Harry S. Truman
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
~ Thomas S. Monson
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
~ Denise Morrison
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
~ Fernand Braudel
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What you can't enforce, do not command.
~ Sophocles
Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.
~ Louie Giglio
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
~ John C. Maxwell
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
~ Edmund Spenser
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
~ Jan Masaryk
Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.
~ Warren G. Bennis