Power Quotes
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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
Nina Shaw
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Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Oprah Winfrey
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For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
Linda Hunt
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Let us seek for wisdom instead of power and we will have all the power we have wisdom to exercise.
Eliza R. Snow
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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
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Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
Zero Mostel
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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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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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
Pablo Picasso
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The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
John Barrasso
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For me, my 'will to power,' I guess, is just to live a positive life and spread positivity as much as possible to other people and other living beings and hope that with whatever audience I have for my voice, I can actually do some good in the world.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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Denying rumors gave them more power.
E. C. Myers
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In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
Ahmed Zewail
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We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
J Balvin
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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
Bryant H. McGill
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The original Golden Dawn was not always as serious as it should have been. Mathers was a clown, and Yeats was just a romantic trying to deceive himself. Most of them were interested in personal power, and it ended up by destroying them. The aim of our group is the scientific exploration of the hidden powers of the human mind.
Colin Wilson
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So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
Martin Luther
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
George Bernard Shaw
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
Chuck Hagel
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The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
Thaddeus Stevens
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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
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Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
Ian Bremmer
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks