Power Quotes
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Honore de Balzac
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We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Paul Robeson
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
Natalie Portman
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She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.
Joe Haldeman
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
Abigail McCarthy
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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.
Judith Butler
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God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
Andrew Bonar
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Carlyle! Carlyle only raises questions he cannot answer, and seems best contented if he can make the rest of us as discontented as himself; and all the others, all, that is, who have any power at all, fight beside religion, either as if it were not worth saving, or as if it had nothing to do with them.
James Anthony Froude
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.
Isaac Watts
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
John Locke Nazareth
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
Alison Jolly
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A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.
Peter Drucker
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
William Shakespeare
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
Genevieve Behrend
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Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.
Hillary Clinton
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
Brian Houston
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
Epictetus
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then 1958 Coup in Iraq, reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
Ala Bashir
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
Ray Bradbury
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Do the thing and the power will come.
Thomas A. Edison