Quotes About Power

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don't you think?

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

absolute power is corrupting

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. "Your love for him has damaged your senses.""And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

All people are brave when their power is rising.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster.

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

But I'll tell you secret. Something even a lot of grownups haven't figured out yet, ' Miss Taylor leaned forward and whispered 'When we face our fears, we take their power away.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

There is a greater power than human strength.

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.

That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.