Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

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

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

We are defined by how we use our power.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

I want to be the guy calling the shots.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

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!

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

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.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

Leadership is influence.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.