Power Quotes

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

~ Wilson Mizner

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The one thing women love more than money is power.

~ D. L. Hughley

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

~ Dorothy Stratten

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

~ David Bailey

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

~ Henry A. Wallace

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

~ Epictetus

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

~ Eva Longoria

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

~ Ann Hood

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

~ Kevin Deyoung

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

~ Shari Arison

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

~ Origen

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.

~ Pusha T

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

~ John F. Kennedy

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

~ Karl Popper

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

~ Lord Acton

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

~ Stacy Schiff

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

~ Orson F. Whitney

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

~ Madeleine Albright

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

~ Robert Frost

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

~ Umberto Eco

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

~ Louis Sullivan

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

~ Steven Pinker

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

~ Bertrand Russell

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

~ Claudio Hummes

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

~ Amy Tan

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

~ Jerry Saltz

I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.

~ Charli Xcx

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

~ John Legend

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing!

~ Monica Bellucci

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

~ Marissa Mayer

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

~ Geri Halliwell

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

~ Thomas Mars

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

~ John Boehner