Top 1200 Super Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.