Power Quotes - Page 20

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

For those who love... time is eternity.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.