Power Quotes

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ken Blanchard

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

George Orwell

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Ben Johnson

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

Sherri Shepherd

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

The only power you have is the word no.

Frances McDormand

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Mark Zuckerberg

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

James Naismith

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Pierre Corneille

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped...

J.K. Rowling

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin