Power & Leadership Sayings

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

I demand the hand of Honoria and half the Western Empire as her dowry.

The more energy you spend trying to control things, the less energy you have to adapt to them.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

What you seek is seeking you.

The wise man is a child, and the child is a wise man. The fool is a king, and the king is a fool.

I would rather be a heathen king than a Christian beggar.

The Way is made by walking.

The root of the empire is in the state; the root of the state is in the family; the root of the family is in the person of its head.

If the qi is not strong, the body cannot be healthy. If the mind is not steadfast, wisdom cannot be complete.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

I have made it a rule of my life to avoid all unnecessary contact with the world.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline to the religion of solitude.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

To be alive – is Power – Existence – in itself – Without a further Function – Omnipotence – Enough –

I have been touched by the hand of God, or of some other power.