Power & Leadership Sayings

151 sayings found from the Modern era from 151 authors

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

— Victor Hugo 1877
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

— George Orwell 1949
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline to the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley 1927
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

— Ernest Hemingway 1929
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

— Oscar Wilde 1890
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To be alive – is Power – Existence – in itself – Without a further Function – Omnipotence – Enough –

— Emily Dickinson c. 1863
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I have been touched by the hand of God, or of some other power.

— William Butler Yeats 1917
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The world has its leave-taking in the murmur of the sea.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1916
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

— Chinua Achebe 1958
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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973
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To be true to the great power of blackness in him.

— Herman Melville 1851
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

— Mary Shelley 1831
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

— H.G. Wells Uncertain, early 20th century
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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

— William S. Burroughs Various
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I'm not a fan of rules, but I'm a fan of respect.

— Hunter S. Thompson Unknown
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Mankind has been making a mess of things for a long time.

— Kurt Vonnegut 1969
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I am a very independent man, and I hate to be controlled by anyone.

— Lord Byron 1818
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Power is the thing that makes a man want to keep another man down.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1937
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We are all in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Samuel Beckett Unknown
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

— John Lennon 1980
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