Quotes About Power

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.