Quotes About Power

Large action arrest small action.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there's nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.