Best Power Quotes

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

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

Character is power.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.