Top power Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of power quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Harry Emerson Fosdick
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Image of E. Stanley Jones
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
- E. Stanley Jones
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Image of Bo Bennett
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett
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Image of Vaclav Havel
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
- Vaclav Havel
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Image of Jackie Kennedy
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
- Jackie Kennedy
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Image of Kevin DeYoung
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
- Kevin DeYoung
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Image of Camille Paglia
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
- Camille Paglia
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Dia Mirza
I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.
- Dia Mirza
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Image of Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Joan Baez
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
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Image of Bjork
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
- Bjork
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Image of Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
If the YSRCP is voted to power, agriculture sector will be given top priority. The interests of all sections of people will be protected.
- Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
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Image of Sonita Alizadeh
There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
- Sonita Alizadeh
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Image of Michael C. Burgess
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
- Michael C. Burgess
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Image of Buenaventura Durruti
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
- Buenaventura Durruti
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Image of Richard Dawkins
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Karl Popper
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
- Karl Popper
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Image of Yuval Noah Harari
Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.
- Yuval Noah Harari
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Image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Image of Neville Chamberlain
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- Neville Chamberlain
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Image of Saul Alinsky
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
- Saul Alinsky
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Image of Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Henry Adams
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Image of Susan B. Anthony
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony
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Image of J. B. Pritzker
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
- J. B. Pritzker
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Image of Maggie Kuhn
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
- Maggie Kuhn
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Image of Robert Greene
An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.
- Robert Greene
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of Howard Zinn
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn
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Image of Russell Baker
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker
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Image of Jane Austen
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Ellen Key
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
- Ellen Key
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Li Ka-shing
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka-shing
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Image of Joseph de Maistre
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
- Joseph de Maistre
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Image of Og Mandino
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
- Og Mandino
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Image of Pete Stark
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
- Pete Stark
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Image of Bruce Lipton
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
- Bruce Lipton
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Image of Benjamin Harrison
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
- Benjamin Harrison
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Image of Katharine Graham
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
- Katharine Graham
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Image of James E. Faust
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
- James E. Faust
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Image of Robin S. Sharma
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
- Robin S. Sharma
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Image of Lincoln Steffens
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
- Lincoln Steffens
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Image of James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison
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Image of Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- Voltaire
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of N. R. Narayana Murthy
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
- N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Image of Henry A. Wallace
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
- Henry A. Wallace
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Image of Joe Kaeser
Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.
- Joe Kaeser
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