Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
— Joseph Stalin
Superior Powerful Leaders quotations
Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.
Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.
I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way.
Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships.
The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the clan will survive beyond thge memories of his memeries. This is how it has always been and alway will be.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us.
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest.
I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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.
Earn your leadership every day.
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.
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
Believe in the power of your own voice.
The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.