Power Quotes

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

The power of thought is extremely powerful.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.