In this post, you will find great Power Quotes from famous people, such as Carlo Ancelotti, Yehuda Berg, Nikola Tesla, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Shelley. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
Everything is generated through your own will power.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.
I didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.
I’ve always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don’t care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The church is not a political power; it’s not a party, but it’s a moral power.
I believe the gun has no power at all.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
Character is power.
Cash – in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits – is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges – but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times – will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries‘ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Never underestimate the power of anyone’s story… anyone’s life.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
I don’t have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.
Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that’s also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic – strict Catholics – from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
I don’t actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power – when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don’t reflect the balance of political opinion in the country – can corrupt absolutely.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That’s why it’s important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a ‘power’ breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.
We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Control is the source of strategic power.
One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Dictators fall when they’re overconfident; they stay in power when they’re paranoid.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
I discovered that no revival comes if we don’t preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.
Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
For me, education was power.
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, ‘Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.’ But, you know, most people don’t speak out because they are frightened.
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.
I just don’t believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I’ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It’s something that I’ve always exploited – with good results.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.
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.
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
The only power you have is the word no.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
The way to have power is to take it.
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
The law always limits every power it gives.
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
There’s no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody’s face just by walking into a room. It’s unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you’re the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you’re so headstrong about it as a fact.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns the all-powerful algorithms, creating unprecedented social and political inequality. Alternatively, the algorithms might themselves become the owners.
Power does not change you, it unmasks you.
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Prayer is man’s greatest power!
Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Money: power at its most liquid.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.
The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
There’s power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it’s also a very visible one.
Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you – in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
I think that if you don’t do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense.
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices – they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Words have a lot of power.
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.
I ride my bike for transportation a great deal – occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that’s hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that’s enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
I love long power walks in the countryside.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.
The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
Power has no limits.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Embrace your fear. Imagine what you’re most afraid of, touch it and hold it so that you rob it of its power.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems – whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
Power wears out those who don’t have it.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Every day alive in the ‘Power’ world is a beautiful day.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Technological breakthroughs in energy storage will make renewable power cheap enough to use in more places and accelerate the move to electric cars and other electric transportation systems.
No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.
It’s a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.
I don’t think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
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 power to tax is the power to destroy.
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Order is power.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You can’t do that with classical.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can’t be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Enthusiasm… the sustaining power of all great action.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.
I would encourage you: be informed – knowledge is power.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
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.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious – and rightly so – for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
It’s worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Knowledge is power.
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
I believe in the power of weakness.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Women are blessed with energy – a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it’s the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don’t deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I’ve had to open up to grief in different contexts.
A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn’t come from money, and I didn’t come from circles of power. I didn’t come from the country club; I came from the town park.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Being reminded about the incredible power of God’s love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Balk the enemy’s power; force him to reveal himself.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here.
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy‘ of power, a technology.
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman’s make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
The story being told in ‘Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That’s what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
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.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
If we all give our power to one person, that’s what the world will be. If we all decide to make the world a beautiful place, it’ll be a beautiful place.
The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
The Court’s legitimacy arises from the source of its authority – which is, of course, the Constitution – and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other’s.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Music has the power to inspire the world.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view – you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values – may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
Power is competence.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right – abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries – I feel that I have to have my say.
When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We’re here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
I do everything in my power to promote positivity however and whenever I can; and, constructively and softly, try to encourage tweens and teens that if they want to be part of a dialogue on my social platforms, there is an expectation that they do so with poise and respect.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
