Power Quotes

• I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Wish
  • Brother
  • Sister

• When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Meaning
  • Claim
  • Tao

• Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Temptation

• 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
  • School
  • Why
  • High

• I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Ugly

• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Revolution
  • Unpunished
  • Magic Virtue

• I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Live
  • Hand
  • Appreciation

• I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • Good
  • Promise
  • Crying

• I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Power
  • Team
  • Morning

• I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

  

  Alfredo Stroessner
  • Country
  • Power
  • Justice

• I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenge

• In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

  

  Steve Rushin
  • Power
  • Mystery
  • Sharing

• Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Resolution
  • Almighty

• History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Power
  • History
  • Child

• Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • War
  • Society
  • Ravages

• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • May
  • Truth

• Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Democracy

• President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Nature
  • Thing
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The question wasn’t when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society’s rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Society
  • Rules
  • Accept

• Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Together

• There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Power

• That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Brute
  • Distinquishes

• Beauty is a horrible power.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Power
  • Horrible

• If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Argument
  • Repeat
  • Assert

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