Power To Define Quotes

#1. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Renae A. Sauter

#2. The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

#3. I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Beyonce Knowles

#4. Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Sarah Kay

#6. Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.

Dan Pearce

#7. When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Leslie Vernick

#8. America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

Nancy Pearcey

#9. Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

David Berman

#10. The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

Michael Crichton

#11. Do not give your past the power to define your future.

Dhiren Prajapati

#12. There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

Tom Ford

#13. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Vaclav Havel

#14. Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

#15. I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jane Goodall

#16. The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit ... What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

Sean Scully

#17. What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Toni Morrison

#18. But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?

Milan Kundera

#19. I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.

Sam Storms

#20. Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#21. The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Herbert Marcuse

#22. Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.

J. Oswald Sanders

#23. What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#24. 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

#25. I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

Adrienne Rich

#26. Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

Tom Hayes

#27. Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

Bill Crawford

#28. Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand.

Alan W. Watts

#29. The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power.

Andy Crouch

#30. Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

Theophrastus

#31. Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Huey Newton

#32. I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

John Adams

#33. Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It's up to you to allow those words to define who you become.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#34. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.

Laurence Overmire

#35. I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

Katrina Kaif

#36. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.

Miya Yamanouchi

#37. No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl ... a woman who will fight to survive.

Sophie Jordan

#38. Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations - each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma - America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.

Henry Kissinger

#39. What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

Arianna Huffington

#40. A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

Ronald Reagan

#41. I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

Warren Farrell

#42. Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#43. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

Anita Roddick

#44. Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.

Jeff Cohen

#45. And yet we cannot define as skillful killing one's fellow citizens, betraying one's friends, and showing no loyalty, mercy, or moral obligation. These means can lead to power, but not glory.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#46. Because not all weakness has to be weakness. Weakness, strength, power, failure - they're just words, and we can define what the words mean if we have the will or the courage.

Michelle Sagara

#47. If any human concious able to define the God then he exactly don't know about the God. If willing to describe then he is beliver of the God. Because The God is unable to describe, if described then not about God. Because God is unable to describe, thats why there is God. The supreme power.

Kunal Jajal

#48. You are the author of your own life ... Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

Oprah Winfrey