Power Quotes
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
Rachel Simmons
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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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Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
Common
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No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
Debbie Ford
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Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
Judy Chicago
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Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.
John Ruskin
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The biggest single thing China needs to do is build an emergent middle class and domestic consumption, and the best way to do that is through pension and health-care reform, and currency reform to establish purchasing power among its citizens.
Peter Navarro
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Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
John Barrasso
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Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.
Vladimir Putin
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Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
Georges Seurat
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
Lucinda Williams
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An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
Charles H. Kraft
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What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Akhenaton
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The property of power is to protect.
Blaise Pascal
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The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
Thaddeus Stevens
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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
Antoine Fuqua
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I believe in the power of you and I.
Nikki Yanofsky
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Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
Mac Anderson
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Girls must understand not only their moral obligation but their power to be allies to each other at parties and other potentially unsafe spaces for girls.
Rachel Simmons