Power Quotes

"Where there is power, there is resistance."

Michel Foucault

"Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere."

Michel Foucault

"Power is not a means; it is an end."

George Orwell

"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."

Stendhal

"Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right."

"Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

Francis de Sales

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller

"Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power."

"Power is my mistress."

"Power is the ability not to have to please."

Elizabeth Janeway

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Gloria Steinem

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Thomas Jefferson

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes."

James Allen

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."

Coco Chanel

"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

"Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, 'I am thine.' The world gave it the freedom of her house."

"Power respects power."