Quotes About Power

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

I live in a world that's free, colorful, vibrant, takes chances, bold, stands up to power, umm, and that's where I've mad my success.