Quotes about Power
Blaming everyone and everything else for our problems and challenges may be the norm and may provide temporary relief from the pain, but it also chains us to these very problems. Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I'll show you the supreme power of choice.
— Stephen Covey
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.
— Stephen Covey
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