1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Yogi Berra

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood