Power Quotes · Page 179

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

— Lucan

True friends can have so much power in changing us. Please, choose them carefully.

— Terry Mark

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

— William C. Brown

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

— Pierre Corneille

“Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.”

— Rae Carson

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

— Eric Sevareid

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power

— Robert Collier

“The privilege to work is a gift. The power to work is a blessing. The love of work is success.”

— David O. McKay

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess…

— Arundhati Roy

“Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior, and bad attitude.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked…

— Richard Shelby

“the more money i gained, the more people came to support, the more people came to support, the more power i became.”

— Sunil Duggal

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

— Patrick Lencioni

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be…

— Lily Cole

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and…

— Eric Hoffer

We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power…

— John Yarmuth

“It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge…

— George Eliot

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and…

— Michael Moore

“The moral, dear child, is that such powers are never to be considered as the main object; it ought in fact to…

— Aleister Crowley

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip…

— Karen Traviss

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis.…

— Don Yaeger

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do…

— Srikumar Rao

I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I…

— Hugh Grant

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

— James Hillman

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

— Tobias Wolff

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

— William Booth

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

— Walter Bradford Cannon

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

— Tarana Burke

You give people power when you let them get you angry. So don't.

— Anonymous

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

— James Dyson

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.

— Burning Spear

“Knowledge is power and you need power in this world. You need as many advantages as you can get.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

Dana White has no power over me. That guy has zero power over me.

— Al Iaquinta

“Prayer is a phenomenal tool for power, prudence and prosperity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

— Rachel Bloom

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

— Karl Marx

Carlo has definitely had a positive influence on me.

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

“Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.”

— Sunday Adelaja