Browsing Topic Best Power Quotes

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Character is power.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

Let’s be clear: when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

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 goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Words have power. They do not deserve a democratic title.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

Racism is about power. Power wants power. So our nonviolent strategy has to put pressure on power.

A tyrant stays in power by isolating his people from the rest of the world. In the case of Iran, four decades of sanctions, containment and global isolation imposed by world powers have done the tyrant’s work for him.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Who built up China, with four times our population, into the first world power with a capacity to challenge America across all fronts — strategic, military, diplomatic and economic? Capitalist America did.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.