Power Quotes
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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
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The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power.
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Oppression is the essence of power.
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Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.
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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.
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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.
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She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.
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We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
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There were a lot of power plays tonight and we were finally able to get it done ? we'll take it.
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There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.
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If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
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I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
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To be alive──is Power.
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The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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.
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When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.
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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.
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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.
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Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
