5,584 Quotes About Power

The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.

It was easy to gain strength from chaos because it had about it the abyss--always so tantalizing--as the heroin addicts knew. But the journey to the abyss was short-lived. The harder road was to draw strength and not power. To gain footing not in the wild uncertainty of immortality but the abiding knowledge of mortality.

For too long, we have been tools of those who love us, and those who hate us. Those who think they know our minds, our hearts, our strength. The power that feeds us. [...] Rise with me now, and help me show them how strong we truly are. [...] We are the light. And our fire will wake up the world.

Shrooms are full of shit. That’s the whole story. Grown in shit, it’s their essence: they try to humble you in these ways that bring you down to their level.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

The light of our internal love and kindness has the power to change people’s lives.

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.