Power Quotes

• Make working out the centre band of core and hips a priority during any training session. As a sportsman, it's the key to any movement and the source of most of your power.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Band
  • Training
  • Priority

• Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • Power
  • Government
  • Dominating

• I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Power
  • College

• Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Government
  • Despotic Force

• Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Live
  • Wonder

• Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • May
  • Control
  • Alone

• The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

  

  Vanessa Friedman
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Clothes

• The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Power

• Even as he looks upon your face, masked with flesh so rotten it’s gone charcoal black, he calls you an angel. This is a first. You’ve been called a god for your power and you’ve been called the devil for your fierceness, but you’ve never been called an angel for your services.

  

  Amerie
  • Power
  • Angel
  • Fierceness

• How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Soul

• How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Flower

• 'The Shepherd Boy’s Song', in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: 'I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower', Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877

  

  John Bunyan
  • Song
  • Fall
  • Boy

• Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Thought Provoking

• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Power
  • Military

• I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

  

  Jeremy Heimans
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Long
  • Power
  • College

• We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

  

  Joschka Fischer
  • Power
  • Military

• I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Music
  • Together
  • Aesthetic

• One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power

• The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Control

• There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Use

• It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

  

  Jason Lewis
  • Good
  • Power

• Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Live
  • Power

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