P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Power is when what you think, say and do align.”
“Power is when you can take the elevator into a department store’s special floor, flash your Black Card, and get free premium quality cappuccino that people without the Black Card can’t even buy because they don’t accept money there. They don’t accept money. All they accept is power. Power is currency. Power is exclusivity.”
Source: sciVive
“Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.”
“Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.”
“Power isn’t always found—it’s awakened.”
— from Echoes of the Astral War: Book One – Vatika”
“Power isn’t controlling everything that happens to us. No one can do that, not even the richest man alive. Power is perfect control of how we react to what happen to us.”
“Power isn't given, it's taken. And once you've got it, holding onto it is the hardest part.”
Source: SNIFF
“Power isn’t in pace. Power is in purpose.”
Source: Suddenly Silent and Still
“Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”
“Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
Source: Across the Universe
“Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.”
“Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!”
“Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back.”
“Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.”
“Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.”
“Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.”
“Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.”
“Power knows power.”
Source: Bailey's Café
“Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.”
“Power lay in her hand. Death gripped her by the other.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.”
“Power lies in purity.”
“Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.”
“Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.”
“Power lies only in harmony. Everything else is a momentary flux between new states of resonance.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman?”
Source: Bloodheir
“Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.”
“Power makes people ignore your sins. There is not much difference between acquiring power and achieving sainthood.”
Source: The Timingila
“Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.”
“Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed anything, it was this: that while those in situations of power and privilege often feel it as a terrible burden of responsibility, in most ways, most of the time, power is all about what you don't have to worry about, don't have to know about, and don't have to do.”
Source: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”
Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet
“Power may lack love, but love never lacks power!”
“Power means different things to different people. For poets and politicians, words are power. For some, money is power. For most of Earth’s history, weaponry and resources have constituted power. My grandfather always told me—and I believed for many years—that knowledge was power. But the funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it’s the people above and all around you who get the final say.”
Source: Planet Adyn
“Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.”
“Power means never having to say you're sorry.”
“Power means nothing when it’s bought with the pieces of your own heart.”
Source: The Sorceress of the crystal forest: A Dark Romantasy of Desire and Power
“Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.”
“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.”
Source: Hobin Luckyfeller's Fieldguide: Demoni Vankil
“Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.”
“Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.”
“Power must never be trusted without a check.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
“Power naturally and necessarily follows property.”
Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments
“Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.”
“Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.”
“Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.”
“Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.”
Source: The Haunted Mesa
“Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Power of Dreams
Dreams are not reality; dreams have the power to create the reality we are dreaming about; all we need is the courage to believe in the power of dreams.”
“Power of dreams is not measured by the frequency of dreaming, but by speed of actions to make them come true.”
Source: Guru with Guitar