What Is Power Quotes

Power is a test - the test - of character.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

Properly, we should read for power.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

Your words have power. Find words that unite. Find words that unify.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.

Power is everywhere when you can see it and find it. It is nowhere when you can't.

Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.

The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.