Power Quotes

• I don’t know if I can explain why I find this car so frightening. It’s powerful. It’s fast. I could go sixty and not even notice, and that’s the problem. I feel like I should notice having power like this. Like if I ever stop noticing, I’ll lose something important.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Car
  • Explain
  • Notice

• Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Women
  • Money
  • Ruin

• The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Control
  • Mystery
  • Jesus Christ

• The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Women
  • Power
  • Needs

• Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Power
  • Abuse
  • Agree

• Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Strength

• The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • President
  • Liberation

• Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Power
  • Love Is
  • Flight

• You have the power to pursue your own dreams.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Dreams

• 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
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Oppression is the essence of power.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Power
  • Essence
  • Oppression

• Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Destiny

• There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Impression

• Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Conversations

• 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
  • motivation
  • Leaders
  • Followers

• I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Changed

• ...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Relation
  • Characteristics

• Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to buck you off, kick you, and run away, that’s just what he’s going to do. And more power to him. But if you make it easy for the horse to be relaxed and calm and accurate — and also have it be a beautiful dance between you and the horse — it won’t be too long before he’ll be hunting for that just as hard as you are. Whatever you make easy for the horse, that’s what he’s going to get good at.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Power
  • Horses

• The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Give

• Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Power
  • Influence

• There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Voice
  • Right
  • Strenght

• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Inspire

• Power only does all its business of empowering when it's perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.

  

  Hank Green
  • Business
  • Power

• Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Pastor

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