Power Quotes
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So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
Thomas Aquinas
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Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Josephine Angelini
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There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.
Ernest Holmes
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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
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Tom Hanks
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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.
Bill Clinton
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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.
Dante Alighieri
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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.
William Hardy McNeill
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
Lois McMaster
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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
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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
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I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.
Sun Ra
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Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.
James Cook
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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
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.
Benjamin Carson
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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
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Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
Emile Francis
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The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
Hazrat Inayat Khan