Power - Quotes & Sayings

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.

Jane McGonigal

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.

Charles Kennedy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Bob Dylan

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

James Madison

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

Nostradamus

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Benazir Bhutto

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Pierre Omidyar

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Louise Slaughter

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Gioconda Belli

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Walter Annenberg

Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

Said Nursi

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Richard Neal

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

Cai Guo-Qiang

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

Rudolf Steiner

Glutes are power.

Conor McGregor

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Clint Eastwood

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.

Paris Hilton

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Charles Babbage

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Saul Alinsky

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

Ram Dass

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

Giordano Bruno

People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Narendra Modi

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Shakti Gawain

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

Leon Foucault

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Christopher Walken

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Douglas MacArthur

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Rollo May

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Kurt Vonnegut

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

Junot Diaz

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

William Moulton Marston

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

Kim Gordon

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

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.

Hannah Arendt

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

Jack Black

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Anthony J. D'Angelo