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Quotes About Power

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
~ Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.
~ Kenneth Langone
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe then unbelievable things can sometimes be possible.
~ Tim Tebow
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
~ Edmund Burke
We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words
~ Max Lucado
We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
~ Ludwig Borne
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
~ Richard Branson
The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
~ Shakti Gawain
They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.
~ Tim Allen
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us
~ Diana Nyad
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
~ William Butler Yeats
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
~ William Hazlitt
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
~ Chris Johnson
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~ Mark Twain
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
~ Sonia Johnson
Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
~ Stuart Wilde