Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

21.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

27.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

29.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

30.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

31.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

32.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

33.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

34.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

35.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

37.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

41.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

42.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

44.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

45.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

46.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

48.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

49.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.