Power Quotes

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Politics is not about power.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.