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. – Julia Margaret Cameron
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. – Louisa May Alcott
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all – of which all of humanity can be proud. – Oliver Tambo
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. – Nido Qubein
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. – Michael Ende
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. – E. Stanley Jones
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. – George W. Bush
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. – Jack Black
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? – W. E. B. Du Bois
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. – John Kenneth Galbraith
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. – John Kenneth Galbraith
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. – William Cobbett
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. – William Hazlitt
