Quotes About Power

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.