Power Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of belief when it comes to fulfilling your dreams. I can say with no hesitation that every person I've ever met who has achieved any degree of success has one thing in common: they believed with all their heart they could do it.
Mac Anderson
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Love, money, sex or power:
Preity Zinta
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Kenzo Tange
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Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.
Ella Baker
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp
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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
J. I. Packer
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel Dorfman
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Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
Madeleine Albright
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A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles who have that power, and to see it that close was a bit scary... It was cool to know I can make a girl faint!
Zayn Malik One Direction
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I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.
Gina Raimondo
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur Ashe
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What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
Marvin Minsky
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I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.
Kerry Washington
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
William R. Alger
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God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
Brigham Young
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The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.
Alessandro Michele
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Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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We will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing even more missile defense.
Hillary Clinton
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There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege.
Allan Boesak