What Is Power Quotes

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

But words are more powerful than anything.

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

My main concern is with the world order

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

Presidential power is the power to persuade.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.

Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.