Power Quotes

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

~ Josh Brolin

Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.

~ Klaus Schwab

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

~ Russell M. Nelson

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

~ Sandra Bullock

You can't trust anybody with power.

~ Newt Gingrich

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

~ Linus Torvalds

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

~ Diane Keaton

All political power is a trust.

~ Charles James Fox

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

~ Joseph Prince

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

~ Rick Perry

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

~ Dick Gephardt

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

~ Jennifer O'neill

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

~ Immaculée Ilibagiza

'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.

~ Liam Cunningham

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

~ Gary Zukav

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

~ J. B. Smoove

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

~ George Meredith

We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

~ Tyra Banks

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

~ Brooke Burke

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

~ Sophia Amoruso

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

~ John Muir

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

~ Ricky Schroder

This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.

~ Jerry Jones

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

~ Russell Smith

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

~ Mark Gatiss

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

~ John Cheever

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

~ Ryan Reynolds

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

~ Tim O'brien

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

~ Shane Claiborne

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

~ Robert Collier

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

~ Eartha Kitt

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

~ Joel Kinnaman

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

~ Chris Van Allsburg

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

~ Paul Bloom

The imagination is man's power over nature.

~ Wallace Stevens

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

~ Frederick Henry Hedge

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

~ Lionel Trilling