Quotes about Power
Leo Roskin taught, "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Stephen Covey
Goals that are connected to our inner life have the power of passion and principle. They're fueled by the fire within and based on "true north" principles that create quality-of-life results.
- Stephen Covey
It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results. • •
- Stephen Covey
In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."
- Stephen Covey
Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. Dream no little dreams.
- Stephen Covey
Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
- CS Lewis
Powerful people can love without being loved back.
- Danny Silk
More love, more power, more of You in my life. I will worship You with all of my heart, I will worship You with all of my mind, I will worship You with all of my strength, for You are my Lord.
- Michael Smith
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
- John Milton
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
- Margaret J. Wheatley