Top 100 The Power Quotes
#1. Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
Alison Jolly
#2. When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.
Gloria Feldt
#3. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
Mary Parker Follett
#4. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#5. Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
David Suzuki
#6. The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
Albert Shanker
#7. No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
Debbie Ford
#8. I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly
#10. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
Gioconda Belli
#11. The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.
Caroline Myss
#12. Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.
John R Noe
#13. I have the power to call you here. As I have the power to condemn you to death. I hope we understand each other.
John Scalzi
#14. I truly believe that a dirty church is a powerless church. Sin absolutely steals our confidence and our boldness in Christ. Absolutely, without a doubt, living a sinful life quenches the great Holy Spirit, who is the power of this gospel.
Mark T. Barclay
#15. Never underestimate the power of fantasy.
Yuko
#16. As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health.
Leah Borski
#17. Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Xenocrates
#18. I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.
Joseph Heller
#19. Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.
Linda Hamilton
#20. The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.
Kent Nerburn
#21. Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people.
Victor Hugo
#22. No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
Joyce Cary
#23. The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
William Torrey Harris
#24. Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.
Edgar Cayce
#25. To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world ...
Nikola Tesla
#26. Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#27. If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
#28. The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
William James
#29. Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
Melville Fuller
#30. Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#31. I'm a witch woman
high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts ... I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Sandra Cisneros
#32. I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
Yo-Yo Ma
#33. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.
Teresa Mummert
#34. I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
James Anthony Froude
#36. When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#37. Music is a mantra that soothes the soul ... something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.
Michael Jackson
#38. I believe in the power of the human spirit.
Bob Harper
#39. I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
Vanessa Redgrave
#40. Once for all: liberty consists not only in the right granted, but in the power given to man to exercise, to develop his faculties under the empire of justice, and under the protection of the law.
Frederic Bastiat
#41. The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
#42. We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone's hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough.
Dianne Astle
#43. When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence
#44. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
Barbara Deming
#45. The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. In our breath lies the power to change our lives
Anders Olsson
#47. I fell in love with you in a blink of an eye, Ava. You represented everything I could ever want and the one thing I was most terrified to ask for. The power of what I was feeling scared me to my very core and made me love you and hate myself for being the wrong man for you
Diana T. Scott
#48. Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
Anna Quindlen
#50. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.
Italo Calvino
#51. The power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?
Paulo Coelho
#52. That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.
John Lennon
#53. Sometimes, when very few know the truth, a single person with only the power of a loud voice will be believed even when they lie.
Marty S. Dalton
#54. The people you love most are the ones who hold the power to hurt you so completely.
Cheryl McIntyre
#55. With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#56. I just wish he didn't have the power to get to me." "I know, but you're a human being Hunter, and you have feelings. What would be weak is if you didn't.
Melissa Brayden
#58. Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers
#59. The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face!
Joyce Meyer
#60. It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead
#61. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.
Wendy J. Dunn
#62. The power of love is enough to reach a distant shore and to touch a heart.
Debasish Mridha
#63. By the power of Grayskull ... I have the power!" Nick
"By the power of Grayskull, I'm going to cleave your skull from your shoulders if you don't take this seriously." Caleb
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.
Lawrence Hill
#65. Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
Rod Stryker
#66. What a state of safety and privilege is this nearness to God through Jesus! Do you know it by experience? If you know it, are you living in the power of it?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
Ines De La Fressange
#68. Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has...It is more powerful in govenments in breaking down racial barriers.
John Carlin
#69. This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.
Steve Maraboli
#70. Let us trust the power of love,
and fly by spreading the wings of love.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
Terry Goodkind
#72. God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
Rob Bell
#73. We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#74. Receive his Spirit, who will give you the power to fulfill your life purpose.
Rick Warren
#75. Songs remain. They last ... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
Neil Gaiman
#76. The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.
Donald A. Norman
#78. The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
James C. Scott
#79. People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
Bill Clinton
#80. How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own 'safeside'?
Dada Bhagwan
#81. Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. Henry
#82. I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.
Caroline Kepnes
#83. Embrace The Power of The Ring! Or embrace your own destruction!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream...you!
Robert H. Schuller
#85. We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.
Barack Obama
#86. A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow
#87. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. Abrams
#89. Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#90. The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
William James
#91. All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
Alberto Manguel
#92. I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
Eddie Vedder
#93. Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet she was speaking to the evidence. But to be offered the power to rule the world? She wasn't sure her career in exercise instruction had prepared her for this.
Christopher Moore
#94. Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
Ziggy Marley
#95. Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
Roger McDonald
#97. Nobody has the power to hurt you more than the person who loves you the most.
Shannon Stacey
#98. There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
Baron De Montesquieu
#99. Once you recognize the power you possess, and the gifts and talents that have been bestowed upon you, you will be well on your way to becoming who you were created to be and living a life full of rewards and purpose.
Dwaun S. Cox
#100. This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Thomas Aquinas
