Mary Shelley Quotes

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Now the power is in your hands!

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

I was not a presider; I was a leader.

The person who manages the state is me.

The future is in our hands!

We are defined by how we use our power.

I have lots of power in my hands.

I want to be the guy calling the shots.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.