Power & Leadership Sayings

147 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 147 authors

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

— Margaret Thatcher 1980s
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The superpowers are afraid of Islam.

— Ayatollah Khomeini 1980s
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We are seeking a just and lasting peace, not a temporary truce.

— Yasser Arafat 1988
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We must not be afraid of making mistakes.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

— Kurt Cobain Unknown
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The Soviet Union is not an empire. It is a union of free peoples.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1987
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I am not going to be a puppet of anyone. I will be an independent leader.

— Boris Yeltsin 1991
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I have to say, I've never been accused of being a shrinking violet.

— Barack Obama 2016
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I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

— Donald Trump 2012
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

— Lech Walesa Various
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The only way out of the crisis is to find a new way of thinking.

— Vaclav Havel Various
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Where there is power, there is resistance.

— Michel Foucault 1976
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It is not a matter of 'speaking truth to power.' It is a matter of speaking truth to the people.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
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A woman's loyalty is only as strong as her options.

— Andrew Tate Undated, widely circulated
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Systematically distorted communication is a form of power.

— Jurgen Habermas 1968
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The more energy you spend trying to control things, the less energy you have to adapt to them.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

— Maya Angelou Unknown
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Power is a strange thing. It has a way of corrupting the best of intentions.

— Wole Soyinka 2012
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A strong spirit transcends rules.

— Prince Unknown
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I'm just a rebel. I'm not a rule-follower.

— Freddie Mercury 1970s
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