Power Quotes · Page 120

The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

— Radhanath Swami

“If you think you have the power to change someone, why not start from yourself?”

— Ela Crain

“Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.”

— Robert Greene

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

— David Lammy

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

— Dustin Lance Black

“The darkness belongs to you. To shape as you will. To give it power or render it harmless.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

— Voltaire

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

— William Wycherley

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things…

— David Bowie

“Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.”

— Mollie Marti

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Regardless of what you lose or the challenges you face, you will never lose your power to make decisions”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages…

— Eric McCormack

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating…

— Katharine Viner

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously…

— John Adams

I walked on a high wire at Battersea power station for Comic Relief in 2011. It was the scariest but the most…

— Helen Skelton

“But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a…

— Michelle Latiolais

“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy…

— Anthony Ryan

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is…

— Gregory Bateson

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,…

— Salman Rushdie

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of…

— Michael Ignatieff

“He had the power to rip her heart out and to make her bleed.”

— Nina D'Angelo

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

— Roseanne Barr

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

— Juliette Lewis

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

— William Shakespeare

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

— Sally Quinn

“Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.”

— T.F. Hodge

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

— Nelson Mandela

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Find out what you need to do to express your importance.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

— Anonymous

As actors, we do have certain powers. I want to use them for the right cause.

— Rhea Chakraborty

“When you control their water, you control the people.”

— Nabil N. Jamal

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

— Benjamin Spock

“The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.”

— Chriscinthia Blount

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.”

— Holly Black