Power Quotes

• It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.

  

  Janet Mock
  • World
  • Power
  • Ignore

• What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Quality

• But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

  

  G. B. Caird
  • Sincerity
  • Vices
  • Demonic

• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Work
  • Power

• I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Singing

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Military

• There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Power

• Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen.

  

  James Meredith
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

  

  Joan Baez
  • People
  • Music
  • Small

• Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Power
  • Wealth
  • Stakes

• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Goals

• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Black
  • Brain
  • Green

• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Heart
  • Power

• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Public

• Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • Control

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Age
  • Man
  • Violence

• I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Power

• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Today
  • Alone

• The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• Reading is power. Reading is life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Power
  • Reading

• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Power
  • Man
  • Stand

• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • People
  • Men
  • Reality

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
  • Me
  • Military

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