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“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.”

Humans Motivational Action Used Courses Causes Results Emotion Leader Destiny Our Lives Shapes Flow Thinker Can Not Power Of Words Human History Our Actions

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.”

People Thinking Men Country Leader Shapes Disaster Frightening Great Leader

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.”

Leadership Leader Environment Shapes Creatures Organization

Author:John Baldoni

“Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us”

Action Moving Force Ability Leader Shapes Invisible Consistently

Author:Tony Robbins

“Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape, And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape, The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong, Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue, There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace, Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace, And when accomplish'd in her wayward school, Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.”

Source: Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.”

Energy Leadership Leader Vision Shapes Direct

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.”

World Writing War Action Belief Energy Lost Religious Emotion Leader Pride Shapes Worship Spring Destroyed Religious Belief Anachronism

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays