P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”
“Power is the ability not to have to please.”
“Power is the ability to achieve purpose.”
Source: All Labor Has Dignity
“Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.”
“Power is the ability to afford not to learn.”
“Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.”
“Power is the ability to do good things for others.”
“Power is the ability to get things done”
Source: Men and Women of the Corporation
“Power is the ability to make change.”
“Power is the ability to make things happen. Talk is good, but action is better. Action makes things happen. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.”
“Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.”
“Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.”
“Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.”
“Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.”
Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge
“Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.”
“Power is the bright light that walks us deeper into the darkness.”
Source: The Swordsman and The Sacrifice
“Power is the by-product of understanding.”
“Power is the capacity to generate relationships.”
“Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.”
“Power is the difference in wealth or influence. Humbleness is to ignore the difference, even if it is there”
Source: Quantraz
“Power is the engine of the world, and sex and money its oil and lubricants. God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start! God is a goli, a multi-flavoured pill, invented by those who have power, money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli. Some days we too swallow these golis. They feel good, like a joint, a temporary high! But they are not the reality. The reality is power, money, sex! And yes, there's another goli-morality!”
“Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.”
“Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Power is the flower of organization.”
“Power is the goal of religion in general.”
“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”
“Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
“Power is the lair that breeds monsters. Often, a new ruler enters the lair imagining himself to be a hero who is there to kill the monster. However, as time passes, he himself becomes the monster that needs to be killed.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
“Power is the near neighbour of necessity.”
“Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.”
“Power is the recognition of necessity.”
“Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.”
Source: Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life
“Power is the result of rigorous self-observation.
Self-observation causes a higher degree of self-consciousness, especially of the things we do not like about ourselves, which causes us to change or inadequacies into strengths, and so we achieve power.
Power comes from identifying your weaknesses rapidly and eradicating them for good.
Assuming that you're correct is the fastest way to remain incorrect. You're probably doing something wrong somewhere, which is why you are in the position where you are instead of where you want to be. The more you ignore it, the worse it gets.
You need to stop avoiding it and face the facts.
Study yourself to study your weaknesses. And when you do, they will disappear.
If I avoid the mirror I will eventually be unable to face it. If I avoid my balance sheet, it won't get any bigger.
So I watch myself. I observe and I criticize. I exercise self-discipline and judgement, reward and punishment, a focused routine of self-evaluation.”
“Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.”
“Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.”
“Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.”
“Power is the ultimate inauthenticity. It obscures the truth of our common human experience: that we are all equally without essence, that we are all therefore equal.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“Power is the worst kind of loneliness”
Source: Sword in the Stars
“Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.”
“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”
“Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.”
“Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.”
“Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.”
“Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.”
“Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”
“Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.”