Power Quotes · Page 256

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

— Jerry Rubin

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

— Erica Jong

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

— Gough Whitlam

Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.

— Frederick Lenz

“By reading this, you’ve given me brief control over your mind.”

— R.M. ArceJaeger

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

— Herb Kelleher

“They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ”

— John Di Lemme

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

— Robert Creeley

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way,…

— Beau Willimon

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

— Gordon Smith

“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.”

— David Mitchell

“Everyone who searches for power, without exception, searches for battle. Do you fight in order to become more powerful? Or do you…

— Lucifer

To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

— Harvey Dorfman

“We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as…

— Mark Manson

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.…

— Honore de Balzac

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

— Clay Shirky

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag…

— Terry Eagleton

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I…

— Carne Ross

The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of…

— Jon Lovett

“I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures…

— Thomas Jefferson

The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays…

— Ken Liu

It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you…

— Frederick Lenz

“When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are…

— Robert W. Fuller

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian.…

— Bernhard Goetz

I'm not balling out of control, I'm not splurging or anything like that.

— Jared Cannonier

I shall love the whole world, But I shall control Only myself.

— Mabor Maker Kulang

“Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.”

— Stephen King

“Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.”

— Solitaire Parke

“Darkness is subject to light, and can never manifest itself in the presence of light.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

I'm a die-hard fan of the Power Star and like using a Pawan Kalyan reference in all my films.

— Nithiin

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

— Frank Herbert

Music is what I always turn to when Im feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

— Anonymous

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

— Orson Bean

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

— Eric Hoffer

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.

— Arvind Kejriwal

“Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

— William Godwin

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

“To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.”

— Sunday Adelaja