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Quotes About Power

The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~ A. L. Kitselman
They can because they think they can.
~ Virgil
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
~ Dr. Frank Crane
Be careful of your thoughts they may become words at any moment.
~ Ira Gassen
The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances.
~ Liane Cordes
The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~ Greg Anderson
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~ John Muir
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
~ Mike May
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
~ Joseph Goebbels
We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
~ Joseph Goebbels
I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!
~ Randy Savage
The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
~ Joseph Pilates
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.
~ Robert Mugabe
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
~ Alexander Hamilton
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
~ John Trudell
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
~ Maria Montessori
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
~ Coretta Scott King
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
~ Joseph Stalin