What Is Power Quotes

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Finding ways to organize work in which people are not locked into unequal power relationships is very important. Having said that, it's not easily done, and it's complicated.

The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.

Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

Power is the ability to make change.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

Power seldome grows old at Court.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.