Quotes About Power

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Never mistake the power of influence

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.