Power Quotes
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus -
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
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There is potential for more Chinese investment in India's infrastructure, and there are already Chinese investors in India's power and telecoms sector as well as the banking and payments space.
Arundhati Bhattacharya -
Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
Nell Scovell -
Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
James Russell Lowell -
It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.
John Paul Jones -
True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Thomas Hobbes -
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.
William Shakespeare -
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
W. Edwards Deming -
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.
Evagrius Ponticus -
Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
Hillary Clinton
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What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey -
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
Andrew O'Hagan -
She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.
Joe Haldeman -
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Mary Daly -
Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers.
Abel P. Upshur -
The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.
Robert James Ritchi
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I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had no power in the TV industry - but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.
Megyn Kelly -
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
Marianne Williamson -
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
Muhammad Ali