Power Quotes

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

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.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

What is power without control?

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.