Power Quotes

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard,
very liable to be broken.
- Abigail Adams

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
- Catherine II

Power is paradoxical.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
- William Pitt

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely
to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
- Carolyn Heilbrun

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
- C. Wright Mills

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
- William Moulton Marston

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!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
- Alvin Toffler

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

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- George A. Smith

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition.
One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- Cesare Pavese

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether
he worships his own power or the power of God.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Circumstances are beyond human control,
but our conduct is in our own power.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The way to have power is to take it.
- Boss Tweed

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

To achieve, you need thought.
You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- Ayn Rand

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
- Allen Klein

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

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
- Deborah Tannen

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
- Henry A. Kissinger

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for power equal to your tasks.
- Phillips Brooks

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- Blaise Pascal

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
- Oskar Schindler

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

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows,
must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking,
belief in the absolute power of logic.
- Alexis Carrel

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

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- Georg Buchner

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
- Stendhal

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

I cured with the power that came through me.
- Black Elk

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.
- Barbara De Angelis

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

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- Bruce Lee

Character is power.
- Booker T. Washington

The value systems of those with access to power and
of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
- Aung San Suu Kyi

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high,
simple and useful life.
- Booker T. Washington

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Charles de Secondat

The law has no power over heroes.
- Charlotte Lennox

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
- Allen Klein

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles de Gaulle

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were
only there for the beer -
the wealth,
prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
- A. J. P. Taylor

The greatest power is not money power,
but political power.
- Walter Annenberg

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing
in the world is power without humor.
- Eric Sevareid

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

I believe in the power of weakness.
- Pat Buckley

The only power you have is the word no.
- Frances McDormand

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain
about what he wants and sets out to get it,
no holds barred.
Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
- Donald Trump

Capitalism works better from every perspective when
the economic decision makers are forced to share power
with those who will be affected by those decisions.
- Barney Frank

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress,
power to curse, and power to bless.
- Paul Harris

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

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