Quotes About Power

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We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Lorsque les Blancs sont venus en Afrique, nous avions la terre et ils avaient la Bible. Ils nous ont appris à prier les yeux fermés: lorsque nous les avons ouverts, les Blancs avaient la terre et nous la Bible.

I would have thought, said the prime minister, that Your Majesty was above literature. Above literature? said the Queen. Who is above literature? You might as well say one is above humanity.

I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)

One has given one's white-gloved hand to hands that were steeped in blood and conversed politely with men who have personally slaughtered children. One has waded through excrement and gore; to be Queen, I have often thought the one essential item of equipment a pair of thigh-length boots.

And sometimes she would dream again of being Namakaokahai'i, her waves rolling across burled coral beds, scattering moonlight, cresting higher and higher the farther she traveled over the reef. She was a colossus of water and motion soaring toward the black crescent of 'Awahuua Bay, her soul perched on the curling lip of the wave, riding it in the only way she could now; she felt the mana, the power in her waves, felt the rumble in her ocean depths.....

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks, circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

You empower what you fight. You withdraw power from what you release.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Affirmations are more powerful than requests, for they remind you that you already have what you seek.

You cannot control the behavior of others, and you cannot dictate the choices they make. But you have total control over which aspects of them you are selecting to magnify in your experience. This is where your true authority lives. "My Father gives all power unto me

The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

si esperas librarte del miedo hay algunas cosas que debes comprender, y comprender plenamente. La mente es muy poderosa y jamás pierde su fuerza creativa. Nunca duerme. Está creando continuamente. Es difícil reconocer la oleada de poder que resulta de la combinación de pensamiento y creencia, la cual puede literalmente mover montañas […] No hay pensamientos fútiles. Todo pensamiento produce forma en algún nivel.

En la vida todo se basa en el poder de la mente sobre la materia.

The ego makes a lousy master, but an extraordinary servant. Think of the ego as a frightened child who has been given a job far bigger than it can handle. It is not equipped to make big decisions

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

When the creators of software-based products examine their handiwork, they overlook how bad it is. Instead, they see its awesome power and flexibility. They see how rich the product is in features and functions. They ignore how excruciatingly difficult it is to use, how many mind-numbing hours it takes to learn, or how it diminishes and degrades the people