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Quotes About Power

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
~ Isidore of Seville
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
~ Sam Francis
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
~ Rick Rubin
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
~ Genevieve Behrend
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
~ Laozi
The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ's. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.
~ Leon Morris
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
~ Shirley Manson
Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
~ Arthur Wallis
Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
~ Sonia Choquette
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
~ William Howard Taft
I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.
~ David Cottrell
Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel
~ Brad Bird
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
~ John Taylor of Caroline
I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
~ Stokely Carmichael
There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
~ Akira Kurosawa
Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.
~ Mark Whitwell
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
~ Sheryl Lee
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.
~ William Martin
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
~ Cornelius Nepos
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
~ Mike Shinoda