Subtle Power Quotes

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.

The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

Real action is in silent moments.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.

Find a voice in a whisper.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.