Quotes about Power

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.