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Quotes About Power

My power will be in humility.
~ Walter Russell
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
~ J. I. Packer
There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.
~ Tao Porchon-Lynch
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
~ Honore de Balzac
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
~ Tom Stoppard
On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
~ Gary Oldman
It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.
~ Michael Ovitz
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
~ Michael N. Nagler
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
~ William Greider
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
~ Nathanael West
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
~ Jay Inslee
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
~ Ferdinand Foch
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
~ John Adams
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
~ Michael W. Smith
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
~ Willis Harman
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
~ Nellie Bly
The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
~ Paul David Tripp
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.
~ Fredrik Bajer
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
~ Peter Drucker
The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.
~ John Landis Mason
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
~ Steven Morrissey