I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

22.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

23.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

24.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

25.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

26.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

27.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

28.

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

29.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

31.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

32.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

33.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

34.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

36.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

37.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

38.

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

Steinem, Gloria

39.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

41.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

44.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

45.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

46.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.