Top 100 True Power Quotes
#1. After all, true power was the ability to manipulate others into wanting to do what you wanted them to do.
Marissa Honeycutt
#2. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#3. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.
Lao-Tzu
#4. True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
Joy Harjo
#5. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.
Tony Robbins
#6. True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#7. Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for a brief time.
James Rollins
#8. It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
Jean-Francois Millet
#9. There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.
Clifton Anderson
#11. You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power.
Debasish Mridha
#12. True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Voltaire
#13. Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.
Emily Thorne
#14. I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.
Jim Butcher
#15. Doolittle once told me that he wasn't afraid of me. He was afraid of what I might become in spite of myself. His fears were coming true. "Power
Ilona Andrews
#16. I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas
Kelley Armstrong
#17. You are special. Accept that about yourself, and you will begin to understand there is true power in your uniqueness.
P.C. Cast
#18. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.
Thomas Wolfe
#19. Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes," he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, "It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.
Daniel "Z" Hastings
#21. One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#22. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
Markus Zusak
#23. Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.
Wm. Paul Young
#24. True power. Limitless power - only graced a fair few. It gave those lucky few the ability - the nobility, to be courteous and polite. All while holding their fucking balls in their hands.
Pepper Winters
#25. Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren't human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#26. Without a story there is no meaning.
And the nature of the meaning depends on the nature of the story.
To understand this is to understand the true power of stories.
And so, to control the stories, to be the one doing the telling...
Well now, wouldn't that be quite a thing...?
Steven Hall
#27. Son, no matter where your talent takes you, you're going to be a man a lot longer than you're going to be a ball player. Knowledge is the only true power. Learn all you can.
Stephanie Evanovich
#28. Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? Whence came their swords? Why do they obey?
George R R Martin
#29. True power is not in how one thinks," he said. "It's in how one loves.
B.C. Chase
#30. True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
Leonard Jacobson
#31. That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.
Jim Butcher
#32. Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception
Brandon Sanderson
#33. Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
Gloria Naylor
#34. When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.
Christiane Northrup
#35. The gods are hard to handle - when they come blazing forth in their true power.
Homer
#37. A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.
Dennis Sharpe
#38. It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.
Pope Francis
#39. The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.
Michael Crichton
#40. America's true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.
Robert Byrd
#42. We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.
Danielle LaPorte
#43. Yet beauty is a shallow thing. So fleeting. Strength, intelligence, spirit, these things can be far more appealing than what lies on the surface of a thing. And power, of course. For power, true power, can last forever.
Kyra Dune
#44. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.
J.C. Reed
#45. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#46. If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
Nhat Hanh
#48. There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges
the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.
Eckhart Tolle
#49. The greatest benefit of negative capability - the true power of negative thinking - is that it lets the mystery back in.
Oliver Burkeman
#50. The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).
James Morcan
#51. True power is stillness within motion.
Laozi
#52. True power wasn't convincing a cowardly lot to be afraid of something that people were already afraid of; it was giving them a complex that made them run screaming when a fluffy kitten came bounding into the room.
Seanan McGuire
#53. The day when love is stronger than fear is the day we'll begin to discover our true power.
April White
#54. Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world.
Bryant McGill
#55. We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are
Clive Barker
#56. The lessons Morden had learnt when he had broken Billard's finger were that not many understood the real nature of pain, and even fewer understood that true power does not come from indiscriminate acts but calculated demonstrations of Will.
Paul Dale
#57. The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we
will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.
Dan Brown
#58. Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu
#59. Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
Simon Mainwaring
#60. Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.
Pope Francis
#62. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
Barbara De Angelis
#63. Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.
Frederick Lenz
#64. If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#65. True power is the power to empower others.
Rhymefest
#66. Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.
Narendra Modi
#67. True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.
Andy Crouch
#68. the true power of technology in marketing is relationship building.
Josh Turner
#69. He'd built his life on wanting the impossible - true power, recognition, a future - and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . .
Roshani Chokshi
#70. Lift the demands of time pressure, though, and some of the true power of human cognition becomes evident. Given the opportunity, we often behave in a decidedly off-line way: stepping back, observing, assessing, planning, and only then taking action. It
Anonymous
#71. You are perfect, whole and complete. You needn't add anything to yourself to experience your true power.
Doreen Virtue
#72. An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones that true power resides in the infinite manipulability of signs.
James Hynes
#73. Your true power lies in how you respond to life's curves. Your best choice of course ... is to always keep your joy
Timothy Pina
#74. The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.
Judith Orloff
#75. True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#76. The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.
Seth
#77. God, Sarah. No. Just, no. I'm not talking money. I don't want your money. You think you can buy true power? You can't. If you could, history would be written by the practitioners." 'So, what then?" Here it was. "Your soul, Sarah. The price is your soul.
J.P. Sloan
#78. True power is given to the vulnerable.
May Sarton
#79. True Power is within, and it is available now.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
Hrithik Roshan
#82. We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
Terry Tempest Williams
#83. The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#84. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
Edward Rutherfurd
#85. True power comes from true love. Only destruction and torment can come from hatred. I release the pain within through constructive and artistic formats. Never will I endure the feeling of hatred and let it out upon the world again. For within true consciousness I am whole and one with the universe.
Kenneth G. Ortiz
#86. As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.
Andrea Cremer
#87. True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence
Slavoj Zizek
#88. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself
Amari Soul
#89. Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
Euripides
#90. true power is used to protect people who are unable to protect themselves.
Kathleen Brooks
#91. I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
Rain Phoenix
#92. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
Julia Hill
#93. Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day.
Robin Sharma
#94. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.
Steven Redhead
#96. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.
Daniel Jose Older
#97. The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
Swami Vivekananda
#99. Dreams are achieved by sweat, blood, tears and an iron will!
Avijeet Das
#100. When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
Bocafloja
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