Quotes about Leadership
We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
— Walt Whitman
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
— Timothy Keller
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
— Erwin McManus
We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
— Charlie Munger
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
— Edmund Burke
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Power always brings with it responsibility.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
— George Washington