Power Quotes

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa

"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

Edward Abbey

"Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue."

Edmund Burke

"Every man invested with power is apt to abuse it."

Montesquieu

"Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."

Abigail Adams

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

Warren Bennis

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."

Ray Kroc

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

Jack Welch

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

Ken Blanchard

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

Joan Didion

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

C. C. Scott

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

Oprah Winfrey

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."

Rikki Rogers

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Norman Vincent Peale