Power Quotes
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As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.
Karamo Brown
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
J. I. Packer
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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
Maximilian Schell
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.
Luther Vandross Chic
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Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
George Packer
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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.
Ken Liu
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Matthew Arnold
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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
Dale Carnegie
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Meg Wheatley
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By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.
Debbie Ford
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It is clear to me that the imbalance of power between the genders is a major part of the world's problems right now. Anything out of balance is going to eventually be bad for us and presently the male energy and the worship of maleness is in fact a major contributor to the decaying state the world finds itself in.
Kamala Lopez
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No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
Laila Lalami
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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
George Mason
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When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.
Auberon Herbert
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
Lajos Kossuth
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#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.
Patrisse Cullors
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We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul
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Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.
Zachary Schomburg
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
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Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.
Mark Warkentin