Charles Spurgeon Quotes

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I like power and I like to use it.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

The way to have power is to take it.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

I'm interested in power.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.