Quotes About Powerful Leaders

#1. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#2. Powerful Leaders passionately dream big and are intentional with the emotional tension that may try to block it; what's blocking your dream?

Michael Walker

#3. Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

Michael Walker

#5. When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

Jimmy Carter

#6. You must remember that you are called to save and set others free, to raise and develop strong and powerful leaders, who will form the government of the nations for Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Powerful Leaders have high expectations by faith that each day will be the first day of the rest of their life; what are you expecting?

Michael Walker

#8. The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. Powerful Leaders plan from the heart; 1st the WHY in their passion, 2nd the HOW it could unfold, 3rd the WHAT wins they will celebrate!

Michael Walker

#10. Powerful Leaders pursue a destiny rooted in relationships (Is that you?) not performance (Is that it?); what's in your destiny?

Michael Walker

#11. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kantor

#12. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

Michael A. Ledeen

#13. Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

Bonnie Myotai Treace

#14. People go on blithely organizing and believing in the remedy of mass action, without the least consciousness of the fact that the most powerful organizations can be maintained only by the greatest ruthlessness of their leaders and the cheapest of slogans.

C. G. Jung

#15. Leaders today would do well to model the heart of the second king of Israel, one who did not seek his own will, one who readily confessed sin and shortcomings, and one who allowed God to mold him into a powerful influence. David had a willing heart and willing hands, and he was willing to lead!

Teresa Hampton

#16. Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!

Tony Robbins

#17. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Peter Singer

#18. 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

#19. It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty ... I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

Jeffrey Sachs

#20. President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

Craig Kilborn

#21. This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Gloria Steinem

#22. 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

#23. Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play...

Catherine Linka

#24. Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.

David Mitchell

#25. We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Condoleezza Rice

#26. The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.

John Mearsheimer

#27. A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jena Malone

#28. It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Gary Hamel

#29. So even as the meritocracy produces failing, distrusted institutions, massive inequality, and an increasingly detached elite, it also produces a set of very powerful and influential leaders who hold it in high regard.

Christopher L. Hayes

#30. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

#31. No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

Alan Moore

#32. As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

Benjamin Zander

#33. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#34. Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Clara Shih

#35. We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

Stefano Gabbana

#36. Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Natan Sharansky

#37. Because we are a globally connected village, we need
to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have
a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#38. In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

Hamza Yusuf

#39. So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

Seth Godin

#40. If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.

Jose Gonzalez

#41. Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Michael Hyatt

#42. I have spoken to world leaders and encouraged them to raise the education budgets of their countries and pushed powerful nations to give greater education aid to developing ones.

Malala Yousafzai

#43. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis