Quotes About Power

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Respect me, or put me to death.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Brutality creates respect.

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.