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Quotes About Power

I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.
~ Louise Hay
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
~ Lawrence Kushner
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
~ George Q. Cannon
I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.
~ Jean Webster
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
~ Philip Yancey
Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.
~ James P. Hogan
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
~ Barack Obama
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
~ George Washington
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
~ William Carlos Williams
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
~ Old Tom Morris
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
~ J. William Fulbright
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
~ Nadine Gordimer
The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
~ Pablo Picasso
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
~ Charles Lamb
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
~ Stephen Ambrose
I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.
~ Paul van Dyk
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
~ Orison Swett Marden
In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
~ Jill Stein
America is number one in wind power.
~ Barack Obama
Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
~ Joseph Nye