Power Quotes

• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Peace

• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Quality
  • Progress
  • Excellence

• So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Power

• I hope to show people everywhere that you can be unapologetically you and still succeed. I also hope that by using more diverse models, brands can see that there is power in diversity, and not shy away from doing something new for fear of failure. The effects are bigger than just the fashion industry.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fear

• My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Power
  • Show
  • Civility

• The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

  

  Joe Biden
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

  

  Clifford Stoll
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Children
  • Heart

• Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

  

  Nicholas Jarecki
  • Power
  • Mistakes
  • Positions

• Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Real
  • Power
  • Imagination

• It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Power
  • Control

• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Commitment
  • Steps

• Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Power
  • Think
  • Drunk

• The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

  

  John Doolittle
  • World
  • Power
  • Desire

• The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Great
  • Power
  • Evil

• An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Power
  • Athlete

• My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

  

  Adam West
  • Power
  • Father

• No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

  

  John Lasseter
  • People
  • Power
  • Nature

• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  

  Elizabeth Van Lew
  • Community
  • Opinion
  • Slave

• When you pray, do not use vain repetition. But remember, not all repetition is vain. The Lord cannot hear enough how wonderful are his works and mighty is his power. Because they are and it is. That is not vanity. Those are just facts.

  

  Anthony W. Ivins
  • Lord
  • Hear
  • Repetition

• I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Power
  • Sick

• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  

  William Plomer
  • inspirational
  • Creativity
  • Motivational

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