5,584 Quotes About Power

Do not give up praying, that is the only pure power to possess.

And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it.

The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place.

Some people like to say that all is fair in love and war. Those people cannot be trusted with power.

Those who seek power somewhere outside rather than within themselves should carefully look at the volcanoes! All the power is within you! And all you have to do is take it out!

I know I won’t pretend to be any less powerful than I really am. Because now I know for sure: the worst part of me isn’t the strongest part of me. And the strongest part of me is so, so much stronger than I ever realized.

When you open the floodgates to love, you gently, compassionately, and powerfully transmute everything based in fear into love.

A disgraced wont attack on you when sees you have power and strength, will attack you when find out you are weak.

Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the autor instead.