Top 100 We Have The Power Quotes
#1. When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
John Legend
#2. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
Jacque Fresco
#3. We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'
Marianne Williamson
#4. We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power.
Lawren Leo
#5. We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
James Dillet Freeman
#6. I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.
Goldie Hawn
#7. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Meryl Streep
#8. We have the power to let go, the power to to hang on, and the power to be ...
Lisa A. Mininni
#9. We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#10. We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
Sharon Salzberg
#11. All that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.
Paul Valery
#12. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
#13. We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
Serj Tankian
#14. We're all here to live a fabulous life ... a life of love, truth, and joy.We have the power to wake up to that. We have the power to say "I'm not just here to survive, I'm here to live the greatest life that can be lived".
Marci Shimoff
#15. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, ... We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
#16. We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Paul Kagame
#17. In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.
Ben Tolosa
#18. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
#19. Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there's another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.
Oliver
#20. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
#21. Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?
Mark Twain
#23. At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
Werner Erhard
#24. The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
Nicolas Cage
#25. The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
#26. It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.
Neal A. Maxwell
#27. We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
Brennan Manning
#28. If we have the power and the means, then we must help.
Seth Adam Smith
#29. How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
Neal A. Maxwell
#30. We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?
Deepak Chopra
#31. when we are brave enough to be in the present, we have the power to transform the world.
Sakyong Mipham
#32. ...we have the power to transform anything we have the courage to face.
Alyson Noel
#33. I can't be Pollyanna all the time. There is a certain risk in what we do. We have the power to make someone's dream come true, but we also have the power to crush it forever.
Maya Banks
#34. We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
#35. We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
William Penn
#36. Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.
Andrew Murray
#37. Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: "The wire is you and me; the current is God," she said. "We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world - Jesus.
Lee Strobel
#38. Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
Sylvia Earle
#39. We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.
Ndiritu Wahome
#40. The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
Alexandra Bracken
#41. I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.
Michael Trucco
#42. Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
Amanda Palmer
#43. Let's try to remember that the world isn't just, because only then will we have the power to change it.
John Green
#44. This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
Sylvia Earle
#45. Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.
Bryant McGill
#46. 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
#48. If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
R.N. Prasher
#50. We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.
Rick Perry
#51. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert
#52. 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
#53. It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.
Gackt
#54. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
#55. We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
#56. Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.
Joyce Meyer
#57. Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.
Desmond Tutu
#58. Only when we find the courage to explore our fears will we have the power to wholeheartedly embrace love.
Shannon Tanner
#59. Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.
Ali Sina
#60. We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#61. I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
Kevin Warwick
#62. 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
#63. We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.
Daniel St. Clair
#65. We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
Joseph Goebbels
#66. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12
Richard Dawkins
#67. If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.
Arundhati Roy
#68. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning ...
Barack Obama
#69. The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.
Sara Davidson
#70. Life presents many challenges ... Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose.
Lee Monroe
#71. Nothing is certain," he murmured. "The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice.
Julie Kagawa
#72. Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
Elie Wiesel
#73. The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
Gloria Steinem
#74. Where we choose to be, where we choose to be
we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#75. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.
John F. Kennedy
#76. We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.
Gina Lake
#77. That's what you taught me - we don't have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.
Darren Shan
#78. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
J.K. Rowling
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#82. We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.
Theodore Dreiser
#83. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.
Colin Blakemore
#84. We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.
Sylvia Earle
#85. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#86. Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production - a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers.
Murray N. Rothbard
#87. Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.
Eliza R. Snow
#88. The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
#89. I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.
Grace Lee Boggs
#90. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.
Nicola Yoon
#91. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros
#92. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
Oswald Chambers
#93. What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.
Donald Tusk
#94. When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.
Seneca.
#95. What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
John Stuart Mill
#96. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.
John McCain
#97. The Word says that if we have a faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. And yet, we limit what God can accomplish through us when we continuously mull over our fears, feed our hopelessness, and encourage anxiety, which then causes doubt. Doubt hinders God's power.
Cheryl Zelenka
#98. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#99. I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
Melody Beattie
#100. Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.
Swami Vivekananda
