Power Quotes
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Tacitus
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You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.
DMX
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I love long power walks in the countryside.
Alice Temperley
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The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians
Bernard Membe
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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
Marianne Williamson
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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. Henry
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We have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
John Ralston Saul
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The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.
Anthony Robbins
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.
Steven Levitt
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Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?
Amanda McKittrick Ros
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We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Paul Robeson
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I don't seek power and do not run around
Benoit Mandelbrot
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The property of power is to protect.
Blaise Pascal
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I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
Amanda Warren
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
John Tiffany
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Bill Gates
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
Henrik Ibsen
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is time to return power to the people by putting the electricity grid back in public hands.
Adam Bandt
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I like dreams. I think there's a lot of information in them. I spent a lot of time on Jungian analysis and dreams are an elemental part of that process. Carl Jung believed very much in the power archetypes in dreams, what dream imagery means, and how you can tie it into deeper self examination. It's a big part of the therapeutic process.
Zachary Quinto