Power Quotes
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The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.
Bob Proctor -
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.
Gautama Buddha
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If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
Susan Powter -
Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
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 -
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
Ethan Canin -
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Never underestimate the power of dreams and wishes. For they're the foundation from which great things begin.
Katrina Mayer
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I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.
Hank Green -
I like his strength, I like his gamesmanship. He sees an edge, he'll take it in a short fashion. He's got great power.
Bret Bielema -
It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
Elena Ferrante -
The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
Hillary Clinton -
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.
Witter Bynner
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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
Bill Clinton -
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.
Ray Bradbury -
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
Thomas Aquinas -
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
Debashis Chatterjee -
Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
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Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be: People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . . People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.
Hank Green -
All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
Stephen Vizinczey -
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Tacitus -
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
Rebecca Traister