Power Quotes

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

If I were a Democrat, I'd siphon the power of states to the federal government. I'd ignore the Constitution and prevent states from determining their own voting practices.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.