Power Quotes

• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • She
  • Power

• What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Kind
  • Corrupt

• I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Money
  • Political
  • Ego

• Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Live
  • Power
  • Accomplishment

• More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Daily

• Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Job
  • Door

• The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Action
  • Human Mind
  • No Control

• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Past

• The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Power
  • Devil

• The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Process
  • Empowering
  • Diminish

• We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

  

  David Blaine
  • Mind
  • Power

• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Life
  • High
  • Earth

• Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Water

• I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Together

• Character is power.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character
  • Power

• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Desire

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Leadership

• The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Together
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Power
  • Coward

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