Power Quotes
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
Sophocles
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Alan Paton
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Charles Capps
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Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.
Antonio Damasio
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When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
Ashton Eaton
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
John Stuart Mill
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson
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If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
Lysander Spooner
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
Norman Grubb
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu
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The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.
Ndabaningi Sithole
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You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.
Napoleon Hill
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
Peter Mullan
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
Susan Wiggs
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Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.
Mya
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You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.
Napoleon Hill
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Jonathan Zittrain
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
Harry S Truman
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I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.
Heather Graham
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I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
Andie MacDowell
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
Honore de Balzac
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith