Exercise Quote by James MacGregor Burns Download Open image “The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.” — James MacGregor Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exercise Fitness Leadership Practice
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. — Harold S Geneen Copy Share Image
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to controul the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels,… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You… — George Burns Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good… — Harry Johnson Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our own decisions. Christ cannot help us if we do not trust Him; He cannot teach us if we do not serve Him. He will not force us to do what's right, but He will show… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share
