Power & Leadership Sayings

Hard paths produce rare leaders.

I've always had a strong bias towards action.

The white man is afraid of us. He is afraid of our power. He is afraid of our spirit.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason.

Man is a thinking being, a being that thinks.

The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

The greater the emotion, the more strongly are we affected by it.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

It is not a matter of 'speaking truth to power.' It is a matter of speaking truth to the people.

I have had this Dhamma edict written so that my sons and great-grandsons should not think of making new conquests.

The great difficulty is to realize that it is not I who am thinking, but the language which is thinking in me.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.