Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Our past can be an opportunity to learn to feel happy, to feel joy, to feel power, to feel passion in your… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or dont have, for what you feel or dont feel.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I don't regret loving you. I don't regret trusting you. I regret giving you the power to hurt me in a way… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“Control is everywhere in the collective consciousness and exists in every cell in your body and every atom of every facet of… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image