Quotes About Power

Your mind is a very powerful tool. When used properly it can take you a long way through this journey called life. No one can stop you but you from achieving.

In this world, we have no option than to be strong because the World cares least about the weak.

You cannot control life, life controls you.

You can never have your strengths without any weakness in it.

The difference between CAN and CANNOT are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life direction.

How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, don't be the chess piece, be the chess player.

It's Money who teaches us who's important and who's not, Even when you have it or you don't.

No matter how knowledgeable, professional, powerful or wealthy we may be we will still need to be guided and corrected up to the last breath.

Be proud but not arrogant. You may be powerful today but remember time is most powerful. A tree makes so much of match sticks but it is one match stick that burns millions of trees.

One song can change a moment, one idea can change a world, one step can start a journey, but a PRAYER can change the impossible.

When a BIRD is alive, it eats ants...when the bird is dead, ants eat the bird! Time and circumstances can change at any time...Lets not devalue or hurt anyone in Life...We may be powerful today...But remember, TIME is more powerful, one tree makes a million match sticks.. But when time comes....only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees...lets be good and do good earthlings.

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices.

A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Your pinky may be the smallest finger but it's capable of holding the biggest secrets.

Sometimes we get angry with people, when we should be angry with ourselves, because we gave them the power to change our mood and feelings.

There is a source of incredible power within you. When you discover the truth of who you are, connect with it and embrace it, this truth can empower you to achieve major positive and lasting life changes.

Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that's that. In a way it's got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that's all they care about.

Mas as coisas que sabemos, temo-las, se não entre as mãos, pelo menos no pensamento, onde as dispomos à nossa vontade, o que nos dá a ilusão de uma espécie de domínio sobre elas.

Parecia-me que a natureza, menos livre que os velhos poetas, devia servir-se quase que exclusivamente dos elementos comuns à família e não podia atribuir-lhe tal poder de inovação que fizesse, com materiais análogos aos que compunham um tolo e um bruto, um grande espírito sem a menor tara de tolice, uma santa sem a menor mácula de brutalidade.

Genius lies in reflective power, and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.

Of course things have no power in themselves and since it is we who impart it to them, some middle-class school-boy might at this moment be standing in front of the mansion in the Avenue du Bois and feeling as I did formerly about the earlier one. And this because he would still be at the age of faith which I had left far behind;

Pero, sobre todo, de igual suerte que los escritores llegan a menudo a un poder de concentración de que les hubiera dispensado el régimen de libertad política o de anarquía literaria, cuando están atados de pies y manos por la tiranía de un monarca o de una poética, por los rigores de las reglas prosódicas o de una religión de Estado, así Francisca, como no podía replicarnos de una manera explícita, hablaba como Tiresias y hubiera escrito como Tácito.

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe,