Power Quotes
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For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
Jenna Wortham
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
Marcel Proust
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Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
Elizabeth May
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
Ethan Canin
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In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
Gene Sharp
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How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.
Eric Heiden
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In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.
Nels F. S. Ferré
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Eustace Budgell
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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
Jeff Bezos
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A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
David M. Cote
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca the Younger
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The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
Eve Ensler
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent
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Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
Euripides
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In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.
John Dickerson
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When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts...
Brian Oldfield
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Power is neither male nor female.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking.
Brandon Mull
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Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.
R. Madhavan
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Power flows to those who serve.
Anthony Robbins
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Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
James Anthony Froude