Power Quotes

• To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Hand
  • Hands

• To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

  

  Andre Carson
  • People
  • Power

• I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Business
  • Power

• We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Power
  • Bad

• If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Men
  • Money
  • Nature

• Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources. Rachel Simmons

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • School
  • High
  • College

• The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Character
  • Nature

• Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • People
  • World
  • God

• It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into the ROI Community. In the first few years, we got to see the power of these gatherings and the resulting connections that spanned the globe. It inspired us to think about how we could transform an annual gathering into a year-round community.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Community

• The power suit is over.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • Power

• Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

  

  Epictetus
  • Power
  • Attitude
  • Accept

• Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Sex

• Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Dream

• Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Music
  • War
  • Relationship

• The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

  

  Ahmed Ben Bella
  • Power

• To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • People
  • Power
  • Understanding

• A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.

  

  Jason Hammel
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call for our nation. It reminded us of the power of Mother Nature and the need for federal, state and local governments to always be prepared... As we go about rebuilding the Gulf Coast, we welcome the president's proposals as well as the thoughts of state and local leaders.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Nature

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