Power Quotes

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

Gary Zukav
- Real
- Win
- Reputation
Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

Adam Grant
- People
- Power
- Opportunity

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

Major Owens
- People
- Country
- Political
We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Kids
- Black
- Fear
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Barton Gellman
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham
- Power
- Sex
When women think of power, we shouldn't think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we're going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women's voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That's the way it is in any species that survives.

Marianne Williamson
- Up
- Thinking
- Women
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Hale White
- Power
- True
- Knowledge