
Top 42 Powerful Leadership Quotes
#1. The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.
John Wooden
#2. There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.
John Wooden
#3. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#4. Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.
Bradford Winters
#5. The most powerful weapon in the world is, Question.
Krishna Sagar
#6. There is nothing more powerful as attitude.
Myles Munroe
#7. It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.
Christine Nixon
#8. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
#9. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
#10. I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.
Erica Tazel
#11. The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.
Peter Heather
#12. Trying to influence another person without first establishing a relationship is like trying to boil water outside of a kettle. Trust, like the kettle, is the vessel in which all things work together to generate powerful action
Denis G. McLaughlin
#13. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.
Marlene Caroselli
#14. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
Orly Wahba
#15. Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
Bill Owens
#16. There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
#19. Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
John Stott
#20. Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#21. Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal
Howard Gardner
#22. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
June Jordan
#23. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel
#24. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.
Robin Hoyle
#25. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
#26. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
#27. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!
Carlos Wallace
#28. As a leader, it's critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.
Bonnie Marcus
#29. You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
Tom Vilsack
#30. His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
Barack Obama
#31. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.
Sheryl Sandberg
#32. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Mike Huckabee
#33. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.
Lee Ellis
#34. The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.
Lou Gerstner
#35. He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.
David Halberstam
#36. Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.
Del Suggs
#37. The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.
Ron Suskind
#38. If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
#39. The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator.
Bryant McGill
#40. How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.
Alan F. Johnson
#42. You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
Amit Ray
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