Power Quotes

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Character is power.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Knowledge is power.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

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.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.