Top 100 Power Change Quotes
#1. You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.
Frederick Lenz
#2. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.
Tina Samples
#3. That's the past. I have even less power to change it now than I did to stop it then.
Jessie G.
#4. The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
Voltaire
#5. Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Laozi
#6. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
Rand Olson
#7. We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power.
Lawren Leo
#8. We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.
Andrew Weil
#9. Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.
Victor Nell
#10. America has the power, but not the will to fight terrorism. The terrorists have the will, but not the power to fight America, but all that could change with time.
Isser Harel
#11. Rosa Lee," he said, "with the privilege to vote - to choose - we can change things, even put our own people in power.
Linda Williams Jackson
#12. When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.
Greg Gutfeld
#13. Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.
Brad Willis
#14. When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony
#15. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
Simon S. Tam
#16. You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.
Patricia Polacco
#17. You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile.
Debasish Mridha
#18. You have the power to change anything, because you are the one who chooses your thoughts and you are the one who feels your feelings.
Rhonda Byrne
#19. It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.
Irving Stone
#20. The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Pete Carroll
#21. Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
Steve Maraboli
#22. The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.
Craig L. Thomas
#23. My job is to preach the Gospel, which has the power to change men's lives from the inside out.
Billy Graham
#24. When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.
Elizabeth George
#25. Time does not change men. Will power does not change men. Love changes men.
Paulo Coelho
#26. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Malala Yousafzai
#27. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
Seymour Simon
#28. The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.
Frances Fox Piven
#31. Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.
Charles Kennedy
#32. Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
#33. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
#35. When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
Raphael Zernoff
#36. Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
Jimmy Carter
#37. Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
Laura Marano
#38. Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
James Buchan
#39. Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life.
J.K. Rowling
#40. For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
Erwin McManus
#41. The power to change is already within you, ready to be discovered. Find new methods to deal with old routines. It is up to you to make the conscious choices that bring a better future.
Lynn C. Tolson
#42. Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.
John F. Kerry
#43. Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.
Bryant McGill
#45. God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.
Melody Beattie
#46. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.
Ilchi Lee
#47. We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves - that part of the equation is set - but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear.
Ryan Holiday
#48. Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Dale Spender
#49. The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
Simone De Beauvoir
#50. Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress ... It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.
William Paterson
#51. You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
Caroline Myss
#52. If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
Van Jones
#53. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
Susan B. Anthony
#54. Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
Eric Schmidt
#55. You can change your world by changing your words ... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
#56. Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.
C. Alexander London
#58. Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
John Berger
#59. Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008 ... That's why, over the past six years, we've done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.
Barack Obama
#60. All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too." Alanna
Tamora Pierce
#61. Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
Michael N. Nagler
#62. If I thought there was even a single shred of a chance you'd still be alive, then I would have destroyed the entire world to find you. You're my brother. I love you. Please understand that none of what happened was within either of our power to change.
L. H. Cosway
#63. It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.
John F. Kennedy
#64. Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
Laura Marano
#65. Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change.
Brene Brown
#66. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
Bell Hooks
#67. I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Nicolas Cage
#68. We are the masters of our own destinies, and only we can allow our hearts to be filled, and enable our souls to be happy. No amount of power or mercy can change a heart from empty to whole, or change the end of a will from everlasting sadness to eternal joy.
Michael Brent Jones
#69. Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#70. There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.
Mike Mason
#72. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?
J. Michael Straczynski
#73. Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?
David Nicholls
#74. It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.
Janis Birkeland
#75. Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome.
Lorenzo Victory
#76. I like to kind of change my performance so that there's more to play with in the editing suite. At the same time I think by the time you've done say 55 takes you're exhausted and you've kind of lost the power behind it that you had on take #1 or take #2.
Eleanor Tomlinson
#77. Once you are aware that you're dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose.
Miguel Ruiz
#78. Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it's simply your attitude.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#79. No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
Willis Harman
#80. When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything ... -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.
Sharon Weil
#81. The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of domestic forces in mind, and occasionally reflect on constructivism's vision of change.
Stephen M. Walt
#82. It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.
Frederick Lenz
#83. If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
#84. 5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching".
Jay Woodman
#85. I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong ... often personality is greater than the idea.
Billy Graham
#86. and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes,
Louisa May Alcott
#87. I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.
Hugh Masekela
#88. Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.
Alice McCall
#89. I wanted to scream with the pain, scream with the feeling of death pressing so close but I clenched my teeth together, grinding then until my head pounded and forced my trembling legs to stand. I had always been stubborn, wilful and no power on earth could change that.
Hannah Blatchford
#90. Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
Sun Ra
#92. We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.
Ruth Harrison
#93. There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!
Richard Bach
#94. Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#95. Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
Steve Pavlina
#96. All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
Aldous Huxley
#97. I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
Wangechi Mutu
#98. Again, we are humble because we know we are not the power to change the heart. But we are obedient because we know we are the necessary means ordained by our sovereign God by which the light comes to those in darkness.
Mark Dever
#99. Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over ...
Emma Goldman
#100. I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.
Joan Didion
