Quotes About Power

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Physical dominance can make you great. Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.

And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don't talk about it. You don't think about it. You just use it.

Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable

When you give power, especially to those around you, you create a more powerful world. When your giving empowers others, you gain more confidence in them and, in turn, in yourself. If you give others enough power, they will go beyond independence to possess material and intangible prosperity. This will allow them to go from being recipients to givers and make it possible for them to feel the joy and significance you feel when you get to help others in need.

the most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the Bible . . . faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself.

Confidence is never about you alone; rich confidence also includes believing in the power of we. Total confidence requires a belief in yourself, other people in your life, and in something greater than yourself. When you possess all three of these beliefs, you'll have a balanced confidence—something that can sustain you through uncertainties and difficulties.

Beautiful women can be like dynamite," (I said to Paul.)… "Now, now. There's nothing wrong with dynamite if it's treated right," he said. It's the men who go around with lighted matches that cause the trouble. By that, I mean they've got their dicks hanging out of their trousers all the time. You can see how that can be a problem for the ladies?

And now the power of Christ is gonna compel you...to choke on my motherfucking dick.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.

needs locks when you have a pair of beefcake warlocks to guard your secret chamber of evil?

sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets.

Galm's tone was reserved, each of his words precisely enunciated, almost as if it required extra concentration for him to speak. He was thousands of years old, and I wondered if he was so ancient and powerful that he sometimes had difficulty remembering simple things, like how to use language.

Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)

Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.

We're not going to lose it. That's all there is to it," Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. "We can't lose. We can lose an election, but we're not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never.

There weren't any moderates left in the government of Iran.

On October 20, 2011, the rebels overran Qaddafi's last stronghold, found him hiding in a drainpipe, sodomized him with a bayonet, and killed him, capturing his last moments on video. Putin watched that tape over and over again, probably thinking that this was what happened when America wanted to change a regime—Miloševi? dead in a prison cell, Saddam with a noose around his neck, Qaddafi on the wrong end of a spear.