Power Quotes

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

~ Max Minghella

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

~ Lady Gaga

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

~ Lz Granderson

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

~ Elton John

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

~ Marvin Sapp

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

~ Kanye West

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

~ Jon Batiste

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

~ Paulina Rubio

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

~ Enrique Iglesias

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

~ Marcel Marceau

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

~ James Taylor

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

~ Neil Young

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

~ Gary Wright

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

~ Franz Liszt

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

~ Edgar Winter

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

~ Michel Foucault

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

~ Nicolas Cage

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

~ Jason Mraz

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

~ John Wycliffe

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

~ Joel Osteen

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

~ Dada Vaswani

Power means happiness power means hard work and sacrifice.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

~ John W. Gardner

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

~ Epictetus

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

~ William Clay Ford

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

~ Cesare Beccaria

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

~ Omar Bongo

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

~ Émile Zola

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

~ Richard Rohr

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

~ John Howe

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

~ Frederick William Faber

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

~ Aristotle

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

~ Pierre De Coubertin

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

~ Barbara De Angelis

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

~ Jefferson Davis

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

~ William Wilberforce