Power Quotes
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Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.
Lysander Spooner
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
Hannah Arendt
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I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people's collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn't usually happen without a plan.
Luvvie Ajayi
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I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
Joseph Altuzarra
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The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
Jenna Wortham
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
Jodi Picoult
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I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention.
Lewis Howes
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You can't put an age on power.
Scott Coker
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Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
Marina and the Diamonds
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Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.
Oprah Winfrey
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I believe in the power of my subconscious mind and I am going to completely harness it.
Benjamin Smith
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.
Ban Ki-moon
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The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
Kathleen Brown
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The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
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The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.
Betty Gilpin
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore de Balzac
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I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.
C. S. Lewis
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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
Albert Einstein
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
Lord Byron
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Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.
Charles Kennedy