Top 100 Quotes About Power
#1. You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.
Jacque Fresco
#2. I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
#3. When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence
#4. The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of.
James Luceno
#5. Strive to be a person of character not a person of power.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#7. The worse thing a Dom could ever become is predictable. The occasional harsh session would go a long way to keeping our power exchange on edge. A true submissive craves a man with edge.
Al Daltrey
#8. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#9. Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power
so long as it does not harm anyone
must be the Will of God for us.
Ernest Holmes
#10. He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.
Evan Meekins
#11. As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.
Eric Greitens
#12. The underlying morality of society is getting worse because we have literally transferred our God-given power to the politician (Man's government).
Michael DeLance Thomas
#13. The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
Paulo Coelho
#14. ...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel...
Thucydides
#15. Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ossicles - Malleus, Incus, and Stapes - guard the great snail, Cochlea, to whom God has given the power to transform the indiscernible movement of air into music.
Kristin Chenoweth
#16. By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.
Barack Obama
#17. The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Michel Quoist
#18. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
Jon Ronson
#19. I'm not into power for the sake of it.
Helen Clark
#20. Her father was lying back in his chair, lazy and powerful, his eyes as fierce as his daemon's. She didn't love him, she couldn't trust him, but she had to admire him, and the extravagant luxury he'd assembled in this desolate wasteland, and the power of his ambition.
Philip Pullman
#21. The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
Muhammad Iqbal
#22. Here's a big lesson: The secret of passion is purpose. Once you find your calling - that compelling cause that you can give your life over to - your heart will begin to sing, and you'll have more passion, power, and inner peace than you ever could have imagined. Discovering
Robin S. Sharma
#23. Properly, we should read for power.
Ezra Pound
#24. The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers ... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers
#25. Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#26. The power of art is the power of truth.
Julian Beck
#27. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
#28. There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me.
Shay Youngblood
#30. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.
Richard K. Morgan
#31. The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
#32. Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.
Michael Moorer
#33. The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.
Charles F. Haanel
#34. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#37. Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?
Russell Gold
#38. All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#39. I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
Peter Horton
#41. Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
Michelle Malkin
#42. Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
Paracelsus
#43. When she learned how much God loved her, how much he valued her, the soul-corroding shame lost its power.
Jo Ann Fore
#44. Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
Brent Weeks
#45. When I remember the promises of God, I tap into the power of God. God's promises are always a perfect match for our problems. And our problem instigator the Devil - the lion - is no match for God's promises.
Lysa TerKeurst
#46. When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.
Kevin Ngo
#47. There are two types of spirits; either light or darkness.
Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time.
Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.
Kathleen Collins
#49. A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#50. The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
Ian Bremmer
#51. Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.
Romesh Gunesekera
#52. You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.
Susan Piver
#53. That's better." He looks at me and smiles. "It's easier to handle if you're not pussy footing around on the power.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#54. Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.
Cleveland Sellers
#55. Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
Bryant McGill
#56. Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone's control.
Seneca.
#57. Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#58. Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
Marcel Marceau
#59. Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.
Chloe Neill
#62. but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who never really sought it
J.K. Rowling
#63. There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
Tullian Tchividjian
#64. Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
William A. Dembski
#65. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
John C. Calhoun
#66. I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.
Anna Meredith
#67. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.
Carol Tavris
#68. Creating lines that went straight into the interior [of a space station] was a recipe for disaster. Some knucklehead in an X-wing was bound to come along and drop an energy torpedo into your main power plant, and everyone knows how that ends.
John Ringo
#69. You cannot be anything other than who you are. Trees don't stand around comparing heights. Flowers don't compare colours. There is a great power in total acceptance.
Stephen Shaw
#71. The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
Naoto Kan
#72. The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
Bill McKibben
#73. The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#74. No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?
TJ Hoisington
#75. Nobody who wants power will ever be happy. You still want more, and you have to snatch it from hands that tightly hold on it. The power hungry is in a perpetual combat to get more
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#76. The novel is the fruit of a human illusion. The illusion of the power to understand others. But what do we know of one another?
Milan Kundera
#77. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.
David Prowse
#78. Power is a phenomenon created by group dynamics, never solely by the "powerful man.
Bettina Stangneth
#80. When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.
Philip Zimbardo
#81. Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space ... but I don't understand that.
Jasper Johns
#82. I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.
Will Smith
#84. I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley
#85. The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Matthew Arnold
#86. Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.
Jaci Burton
#87. I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
Jesse Duplantis
#88. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man
David Crockett
#89. We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.
Sylvia Earle
#90. 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.
#91. Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
J.D. Greear
#92. If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.
David Nicol
#93. The only way into a ministry that sees people's lives change, that brings joy and power and electricity without authoritarianism, is through preaching the gospel to deconstruct both legalism and relativism.
Timothy Keller
#94. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.
Jennifer Armstrong
#95. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
#96. Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.
Dennis R. Miller
#97. What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
#98. The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss
Joel C. Rosenberg
#99. Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.
Thomas Huxley
#100. As your satsang deepens, the debris starts floating to the surface bringing much discomfort to the body-mind. Now is not the time for therapy or analysis. Simply leave it to the Sovereign Power whose benevolence washes away all delusion. Remember this!
Mooji
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