Quotes About Attaining Power

#1. All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover

#3. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

James Oppenheim

#4. Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

J.I. Packer

#5. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.

Vironika Tugaleva

#6. How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.

Christina Engela

#7. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

Tony Dovale

#8. Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch

#9. One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9

Mark Batterson

#11. Being brave isn't the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you.

Kara Taylor

#12. In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. Its a dear thing to be by your own

Eman Herzallah

#14. But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be
one big scar of a love gone wrong.

Amanda Grace

#15. I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.

Jon Jones

#16. There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Sophie Swetchine

#17. Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.

John Angell James

#18. Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Plato

#19. Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

Gail Porter

#20. My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Frederik Pohl

#21. Friends. Just friends. Baseball... baseball...

Sibylla Matilde