Quotes About Power

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Only you have the power to change your thoughts. Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.