Top 100 Power Is Quotes
#1. Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
Catharine MacKinnon
#2. Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.
Lynn Andrews
#3. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from The Iron
Henry Rollins
#4. Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
William Ellery Channing
#5. Power is everywhere when you can see it and find it. It is nowhere when you can't.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George Schultz
#7. Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell
#9. All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.
Rhonda Byrne
#10. We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?
Will Durant
#11. Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
#12. From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
Terry Goodkind
#15. They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
Samuel Butler
#16. It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
Noam Chomsky
#17. Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. Feynman
#19. With knot of one, the spell's begun.
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of three, the spell is free.
With knot of four, the power is stored.
With knot of five, the spell with thrive.
With knot of six, this spell I fix.
Deborah Harkness
#20. Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
Mike Pence
#22. True combat power is arms multiplied by fighting spirit. If one of them is infinitely strong, you will succeed. - Asahi Shimbun newspaper, quoted in Japan at War: An Oral History
James D. Bradley
#23. Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore De Balzac
#24. The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.
John M. Perkins
#25. I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church' ... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.
Robert A. Schuller
#26. Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.
Charles Stanley
#28. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)
William Hazlitt
#29. Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
Felix O. Hartmann
#30. Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow.
Narendra Modi
#31. You have the power to bring out the best or worst in people. Focus on the good in people and that is what you will get more of. Focus on peoples potential and you can bring out the best in them. The power is in your focus.
Jeanette Coron
#32. My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn Ashmore
#33. power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#34. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara Tuchman
#36. power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.
Moises Naim
#37. As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.
Eric Greitens
#38. The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
#39. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#41. Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
Brent Weeks
#42. A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#44. I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.
Will Smith
#46. Power is a phenomenon created by group dynamics, never solely by the "powerful man.
Bettina Stangneth
#47. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
John C. Calhoun
#48. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
Winston Churchill
#49. true power is used to protect people who are unable to protect themselves.
Kathleen Brooks
#50. Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
Moises Naim
#52. The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
#55. When your will power is gone, you are helpless.
El DeBarge
#56. God is the most supreme. His power is without comparism. He is the impossibility specialist. All glory to him. Amen
Chinyere Nwakwue
#58. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
Mao Zedong
#59. Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.
Peace Pilgrim
#60. To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Eric Hoffer
#62. But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
#63. Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists ... I'm written to be a legend.
Naseem Hamed
#64. Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#65. A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
Alexander Hamilton
#66. The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
#67. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
Ramana Maharshi
#70. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,
Francine Rivers
#72. Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.
Emily Thorne
#73. What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#75. I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!
Jay Alan Sekulow
#76. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
Thomas Paine
#77. Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.
Irving Fisher
#78. The belief that China is a global power is widespread, understandable, and wrong.
Anonymous
#79. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.
Davis Bunn
#80. Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
Jamaica Kincaid
#83. God does not have some limited supply of power, requiring that we carefully select a few choice things to pray about. God's power is infinite. God's grace and mercy are drawn deeply from the bottomless well of His heart.
Beth Moore
#84. On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.
Eric S. Raymond
#85. The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
Giordano Bruno
#86. It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
#87. Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving.
Frank Fools Crow
#88. Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
Richard Eberhart
#89. Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.
Walt F.J. Goodridge
#92. [I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Hugo Black
#93. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
#94. To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
Hannah Arendt
#95. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Coloroso
#96. Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Jules Verne
#97. I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.
Anika Noni Rose
#98. Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.
Paul Collier
#99. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
#100. He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Plato
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