Best leader & powerful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Book:Living Faith

Source: Living Faith

“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”

Men Said War Government Certain Nations Peace Lines Powerful Leader Generations Ideals Essence Democrat Gifted Very Powerful Absolutely Nothing Aristocracy Plutocracy

Book:The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

“Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.”

Stories Leadership Powerful Leader Tools Most Powerful

Author:Howard Gardner

“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.”

Literature Powerful Leader Support Failing Citizens Democratic Peaceful Dependent Incentives Prosperous Democratic Leaders

Author:Natan Sharansky

“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”

“If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“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.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.”

“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.”

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Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“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.”

People Powerful Emotion Leader Class Middle Periods Empathy Educated Revolutionary Middle Class Communist Very Powerful Powerful Emotions

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

Thinking Men Life Inspirational Stills Women Born Powerful Leader Feminist Powerful Women Anomalies Powerful Man Born Leaders Strong Powerful Women

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”

Powerful Leader Optimism Tanks Contagious Batteries Being A Leader Artillery

Author:Rick Hillier

“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.”

Believe Long Dream Leadership Powerful Leader Fantasy Possibility Commit Realms Followers Pipe Pragmatists Realm Of Possibility Pipe Dreams

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“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.”

World Needs Mind Strong Powerful Mistake Leader Notion Obsessed Islamic Progressive Thinker Unconventional Powerful Leaders Strong Leaders

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

Thinking Men Mind Certain Powerful Numbers Leader Knowing Mass Majority Scoundrels Submissive Powerful Leaders

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.”

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Author:Eric Holmes

“The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.”

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Author:James Nachtwey

“A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.”

“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.”

People Giving Powerful Leader Possibility Offers Approach Expectations Performances Encounters Grades

Author:Benjamin Zander

“Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“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.”

Ifs Want Powerful Leader Failing Risk Industry Organization Not Afraid Permission Better Place Very Powerful Taking Risks

Author:Rick Welts

“There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.”

“I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.”

People Way Firsts Persons Made Said Reason Choices Left Nations Born Powerful Leader Steps Class Asking South Servant First Steps Accord Migration

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.”

People May Choices Jesus Christ Powerful Leader Perspective Blessing Draws Jesus Christ Noble Objectives Pursue Intensity Select Magnetic Cursing Choose Life Duets

Author:John Ashcroft

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