Power Quotes

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

~ Jasper Fforde

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

~ Dean Koontz

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

~ Dean Koontz

We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.

~ Rhealyn

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

~ Dean Koontz

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?

~ Olive Schreiner

If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Once you say “I can’t”, you suppress the left over passion in you. But you say “I can”, you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whoever said “Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork” must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

The power in people is stronger than people in power.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

~ Charisse Montgomery

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

~ Gary Hopkins

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

At a time when we need an urgent national conversation about how schools and curriculum should address the environmental crisis, we're being told that the problems we need to focus on are teacher incompetence, government monopoly, and market competition. The reform agenda reflects the same private interests that are moving to shrink public space-interests that have no desire to raise questions that might encourage students to think critically about the roots of the environmental crisis, or to examine society's unsustainable distribution of wealth and power.

~ Bill Bigelow

Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

~ Steve Knox

Naysayers are frightened of their own power.

~ T.f. Hodge

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

~ T.f. Hodge

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.

~ Gail Carson Levine

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.

~ Leon Brown

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

~ Sweety Shinde

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had power and you didn't. If he decided not to, if he treated you like a man or came to your defense, it was because he knew that the words you spoke, the clothes you wore, the books you read, your ambitions and desires, were already his. Whatever he decided to do, it was his decision to make, not yours, and because of that fundamental power he held over you, because it preceded and would outlast his individual motives and inclinations, any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.

~ Barack Obama

I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?

~ H.j. Lawson

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.

~ Richard Ronald Allan

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

~ Carla H. Krueger

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.

~ T.f. Hodge

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.

~ Nalo Hopkinson

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.

~ T.f. Hodge

Am I as admirable as that ant?

~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

~ T.f. Hodge

If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what it’s like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title human. I’ve bettered a day though. On earth, they will have it thus: from birth to unavoidable death, a man is pumped so full of love that his eyes bleed rainbows and his mouth a barrel of miracles. His hands will heal then make monuments to commemorate it; they’ll press tight and pray for no man, no god but himself; and his mind… his mind will shower like spring rains. He will steal away from the shadow of ambition. He’ll be his own sun and light up the world with new marvels – be they art, philosophies, science – and in his brightness put the mundane, not himself, in shadows, and how rightfully. Each a captain and a maker, a mark-setter and stealer of shows... Earth’s skies will clap with the thunder of our majesty, not with violence, doubt, confusion, futility, and monotony; anything – anything – but the dull drone of duplication and robo-behaviour.

~ Richard Ronald Allan

I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that it would falter, it didn’t. It’s still here. You see, the essence of trust is not knowing a person’s motive; it’s knowing what isn’t. It’s a simple process of trial and error that gets you to the heart of a man; and once that soft voice and those light feet of yours got to moving I saw in you no measure of ill intent.

~ Richard Ronald Allan

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.

~ Nalo Hopkinson

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

~ Criss Jami

The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see.

~ Alice Walker

All people who come to the dark come for power.

~ Amanda Hudson

Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic - no fiction. Stop playin' with your power, your inner 'G', and build on purpose - accordingly. Being free is for free, so force the issue.

~ T.f. Hodge

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

~ Laurence Overmire