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Quotes About Power

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
~ Ambrose
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
~ Aesop
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
~ Robert Greene
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.
~ George Fitzhugh
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
~ Vladimir Putin
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
~ William Osler
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
~ Frederick Douglass
You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.
~ Sharon Stone
Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
~ Paul Washer
Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~ Napoleon Hill
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.
~ Bernie Sanders
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
~ Heloise
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
~ Cal Thomas