Power Quotes · Page 244

You cannot know the power of god in yourself until you know the power of god in Christ.

— Anonymous

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

— Anonymous

“When we neglect knowledge, we have indirectly rejected light.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The power of the lie, Daniel said. Always seductive to the powerless.”

— Ali Smith

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

— Karlie Kloss

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

— Jim Lee

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

— J. Golden Kimball

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

— Idries Shah

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and…

— Matthew Specktor

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

— Timothy Keller

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part…

— Adam Ondra

At the end of the day, when you command a certain power in track and field, you sometimes you have to exercise…

— Justin Gatlin

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for…

— Black Elk

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would…

— Kerris Dorsey

“Another surprising consequence of kin solidarity is that the family is a subversive organization. That conclusion flies in the face of the…

— Steven Pinker

The establishment and their media enablers will control over America through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control…

— Donald Trump

“Everyone is driven by three things: 1. Achievement (the desire to compete against increasingly challenging goals) 2. Affiliation (the desire to be…

— Peter Bregman

Sometimes, I wish the garage days were here again. I used to love that, when you're eating Taco Bell and tuna fish…

— Steve Harwell

In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an…

— Peter Prange

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which…

— Kenneth Kaunda

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there…

— William Hutchison Murray

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Do not mistaken me for another weak girl; I earned these scars!

— Allie Cogdill

“You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The only real power that you have as a woman lies in the attention you get.”

— Lebo Grand

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

— John Naisbitt

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

— Anoushka Shankar

“One must require of each what each is able to give. Authority rests first of all upon reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

— Benjamin F. Wade

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

— William Ellery Channing

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

— James Hunter

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

— Ash Sweeney

Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer.

— Tasneem Hameed

“The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily they respond to real control.”

— Scott Lynch

“Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

— John Adams

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

— Jaggi Vasudev

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

— Glenn Greenwald