Mohawk Indian Tribe Quotes

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Not to be ministered unto but to minister.

The President is the ultimate role model.

Of myself I must say this: I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding Prince, nor yet a waster. My heart was never set on any worldly goods. What you bestow on me, I will not hoard it up, but receive it to bestow on you again.

He is the best of men who dislikes power.

Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose's life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.