Power Quotes

• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

  

  John Calvin
  • Men
  • Will
  • God's Grace

• Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Single
  • Service
  • Sin

• Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Unknown

• Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Power
  • Together

• I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Power
  • Moral

• We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Art
  • May
  • Age

• One should hardly have to tell academicians that information is a valuable resource: knowledge is power. And yet this occupies a slum dwelling in the town of economics. Mostly it is ignored.

  

  George Stigler
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Ignored

• Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• I like his strength, I like his gamesmanship. If he gets a shoulder on anyone it usually disrupts their path and that's not always the case at the running back position. So I like the power that he brings to the table.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Power
  • Running
  • Strength

• Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Football

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

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Use

• A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Power
  • Decision

• Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Power
  • Read
  • Unfit

• To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Political

• Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Power
  • Military

• If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Thinking
  • Wise
  • Biblical

• Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

  

  Michael Kelly
  • Draws
  • Toward
  • Gravitate

• I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history?

  

  Aung San
  • Heaven
  • Destiny
  • Achieve

• I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.

  

  Francis Fukuyama
  • Country
  • History
  • Political

• I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

  

  Jim Gilmore
  • Power

• I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Change
  • Choices

• You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • World
  • Book
  • Stop

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