Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side. — Robert Greene
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power. — Malcolm X
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might. — James Hunter
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. — Ralph Ellison
Abuse of power comes as no surprise — Jenny Holzer
Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take. — JR
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. — Eckhart Tolle
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton
Power must never be trusted without a check. — John Adams
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Short Power Trip Quotes
Power is the near neighbour of necessity. — Pythagoras
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. — Bob Herbert
Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere. — Michel Foucault
If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Politics is the exercise of power without merit. — Naval Ravikant
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it. — George Washington
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. — Immanuel Kant
Power Trip Image Quotes
You have the power to say - This is not how my story will end.
Trip Quotes
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. — Albert Einstein
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. — John Locke
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. — Ernest Hemingway
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping. — Saint Francis de Sales
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. — Walt Whitman
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. — Vladimir Nabokov
Tripping Over Quotes
We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show. — Martin Milner
Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too. — Mia Farrow
It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me. — Taye Diggs
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford! — KRS-One
You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet. — Michael J. Sullivan
Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand— — J. K. Rowling
The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life. — Lee Trevino
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman
Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. — Drew Brees
I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them. — Jo Walton
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. — John Henrik Clarke
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. — Joseph Stalin
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. — Noam Chomsky
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy. — Haile Selassie
Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things — Miyamoto Musashi
Power Quotes
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. — Malcom X
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Josef Stalin
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise. — Sri Chinmoy
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. — Dick Gregory
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip. — Jewel
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies. — Robert Silverberg
Travel brings power and love back into your life. — Rumi
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. — A. B. Simpson
Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy. — Osho
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. — William Least Heat-Moon
Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything. — James P. Hogan
Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power. — Frederick Lenz
I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. — Misha Collins
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. — Garrett Hardin
I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things. — Kid Cudi
It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things. — Sayings
What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it. — Lauren Myracle
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top. — Valerie Steele
How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige." — Osho
One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how important storytelling is among tribal peoples; it forms the basis of their educational systems. The Celtic peoples, for example, insisted that only the poets could be teachers. Why? I think it is because knowledge that is not passed through the heart is dangerous: it may lack wisdom; it may be a power trip; it may squelch life out of the learners. What if our educational systems were to insist that teachers be poets and storytellers and artists? What transformations would follow? — Matthew Fox
Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. — Chad Michael Murray
Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough. — Mark Warkentin
I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip. — Jewel Kilcher
I used to get defensive and react. Like you, I get pushed and pulled [backstage].... Sometimes people are rude to me, and I feel like, 'You know, guys, I'm just here trying to do my job....' And the reality is, everyone else is just trying to do their job...and sometimes they get on a power trip [and] you feel disrespected. But that's their problem. It's not my problem. — Guido Palau
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted. — Frank Zindler
A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring. — Alicia Keys
There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control. — Richard Rohr
Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me. — Malcolm Morley
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills. — Alex Steffen
... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together. — Brenda Ueland
The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power. — Frederick Lenz
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans. — Sayings
The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden. — Jay Leno
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union. — William L. Shirer
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego. — Osho
I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it. — Lauren Myracle
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