Quotes About Power

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

Ignorant power is a bane!

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Habit is necessary to give power.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.