Power Quotes

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

"Persuasion is better than force."

Aesop

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm."

Sidney J. Phillips

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."

Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."

John Beecher

"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."

Woodrow Wilson

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."

John Locke

"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."

Eckhart Tolle

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Samuel Smiles

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back."

Sojourner Truth

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida B. Wells

"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

Viktor Frankl

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"Let him who would move the world first move himself."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

Leo Tolstoy

"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield."