Top 100 Power Not Quotes
#1. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
Charles Barkley
#2. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.
Arthur Herman
#3. There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.
Louise Fresco
#4. I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three.
I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one.
I met a girl, and she changed everything.
Patrick Carman
#5. I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.
Howard Dean
#6. Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The
Chetan Bhagat
#7. Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
Nawal El Saadawi
#8. If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing
John F. Kennedy
#9. Something else that her mind answer before the question ask. She know the answer. She can't help nobody out of white man power, not even herself. The woman eye still asking. Lilith don't know how to fix her eye to say no, so she look at the man and the same question come over him face.
Marlon James
#10. 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
#11. Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everything they
desire but without time they are,
all useless.
Akash Lakhotia
#12. But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I could teach English and Drama - because I'm not thick, surprisingly enough.
Sarah Douglas
#14. One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.
Walter Wriston
#15. In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes
#16. Religion in the form of polytheism entered the world as the vindication of power. Not only was there no separation of church and state; religion was the transcendental justification of the state.
Jonathan Sacks
#17. I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one
Jeffery Deaver
#18. It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!
Peter Schiff
#20. Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
Romano Prodi
#21. Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.
George MacDonald
#22. Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
Paul Krugman
#23. The story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.
William J. Federer
#24. The real leader holds the power, not just the position.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.
Laozi
#26. 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.
Louis L'Amour
#27. Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?
Peter Singer
#28. He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;
Mungo MacCallum
#29. And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#30. There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Woodrow Wilson
#31. It not in our power not to be stirred mentally by our appetites but it is in our power to translate them or not to translate them into actions.
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
#32. I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.
Poul Hartling
#33. I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Marya Mannes
#34. If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals,
Jose Saramago
#35. The work is done, but how no one can see;
'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.
Lao-Tzu
#36. [T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.
James Madison
#38. Marshall perched hesitantly beside me.
"They asked me to protect you."
My eyes widened. "What? Who did? The Sisterhood?"
"No, the Teletubbies did. Of course, the Sisterhood." Marshall rolled his eyes at me, and it took all of my will power not to shove him off the bench.
Chanelle Gray
#39. Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.
Monica Johnson
#40. Belief has power. Getting someone else to believe what you believe has even greater power. I've always been all about the power, not so much with the following or the believing. I believe in me, that's pretty much it. Believe in someone else too much and they'll fail you or screw you, or both.
R.S. Belcher
#41. Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
Aristotle.
#42. It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
Marcus Aurelius
#43. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
Seneca.
#44. What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#45. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
Thomas Chalmers
#46. We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.
Kristin Cast
#47. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power.
Gavin De Becker
#49. A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge..
John Henry Newman
#50. Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.
Jeffrey Fry
#51. There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.
Winston Churchill
#52. Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo
Willa Shalit
#53. Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
Bell Hooks
#54. Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
Michael Hardt
#55. And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.
Jill Lepore
#56. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do
Aristotle.
#57. That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.
Eve Ensler
#58. Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur Goldberg
#59. Greatness is not having the power to do mighty things; it's having the power not to,
Lucas Kitchen
#60. Is the result of cooperation the seizing of power? Not so: cooperation mysteriously creates more power than there was before, so that the more we work together the more power we discover is available to us.
Andy Crouch
#61. I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work - not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#62. Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.
Bryant McGill
#63. The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon
#64. This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.
Elizabeth Janeway
#65. Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.
Geoffrey Batchen
#66. Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#68. I have come to know that faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
Boyd K. Packer
#69. And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?
Rollo May
#70. A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Thomas Paine
#71. It took all my will power not to lean over and sniff him, he smelled so good.
Abbi Glines
#72. It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#73. Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
John Piper
#74. Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
Sinclair Lewis
#75. You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.
Debasish Mridha
#76. I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
Vicente Fox
#77. Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#78. When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can't just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you're ready for it.
Colleen Hoover
#79. When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Hugh Prather
#80. Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ...
Aristotle.
#81. I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.
Celia Mcmahon
#82. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt
#83. For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what concerns their body - which would be of little account - but also in what concerns their soul.
Louis De Montfort
#84. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.
Corrie Ten Boom
#85. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#86. Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.
Jurgen Moltmann
#87. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.
Mary Louise Pratt
#88. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
Felix Dennis
#89. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#90. Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.
Robert H. Jackson
#91. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Jonathan Barnbrook
#92. I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Charles Hanson Towne
#93. When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#94. Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.
Theophan The Recluse
#95. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#96. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.
Anne Leonard
#97. I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
Nikki Haley
#98. How long will this last?' This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power, and they were not so much delighted by the greatness of their fortune as terrified by the thought of its inevitable end.
Seneca.
#99. Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.
Louise Hay
#100. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
John Wooden
