Famous Quotes
- When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Julia Margaret Cameron on Power
- When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
- Shakti Gawain on Power
- When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Robert Anthony on Power
- When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Power
- When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
- Jeanne Moreau on Power
- When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- Susan Sarandon on Power
- Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
- M. Scott Peck on Power
- Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
- James Madison on Power
- Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
- Khalil Gibran on Power
- Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- James Madison on Power
- Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
- Oriana Fallaci on Power
- Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
- Mason Cooley on Power
- Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- Cesare Pavese on Power
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Power
- Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas J. Watson on Power
- With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth on Power
- With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.
- Andrew Shue on Power
- With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
- Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
- Jon Meacham on Power
- Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
- Emile M. Cioran on Power
- Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
- William Cobbett on Power
- Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf on Power
- Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
- Thomas Carlyle on Power
- Words derive their power from the original word.
- Meister Eckhart on Power
- Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Power
- Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
- Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Power
- You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
- Elizabeth Edwards on Power
- You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
- W. Clement Stone on Power
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach on Power
- You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Osteen on Power
- You can't trust anybody with power.
- Newt Gingrich on Power
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Louisa May Alcott on Power
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius on Power
- You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
- Jack Black on Power
- You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Power
- You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
- You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
- Colin Powell on Power
- You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
- John Podhoretz on Power
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes on Power
- Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
- Martin Scorsese on Power
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
- Anne Lamott on Power
- Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
- Robert Collier on Power
- Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Power
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