Power Quotes

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

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Control

• I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

  

  David Morrissey
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Today
  • Society
  • Energy

• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  

  Aaron David Gordon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Power

• I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • She
  • Peace
  • Independent

• All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Running
  • Body
  • Run

• These golden mattersOf Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.

  

  Archilochus
  • Work
  • God
  • Eyes

• I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Power

• We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • People
  • Control
  • Wall

• Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Grace

• It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision ... You have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy.

  

  John Jay
  • Law
  • Hand
  • Decision

• People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

  

  Kay Hagan
  • People
  • Power

• Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Work
  • Control
  • Organization

• It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Society
  • Education
  • Control

• It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May
  • Question
  • Wisdom

• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Advice

• Power

  

  Kwame Nkrumah
  • Power

• I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Trying
  • Power

• One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Why

• I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Power
  • Revenge

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Power

• And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • Character
  • Power

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