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Quotes About Power

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
~ Diane Arbus
Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.
~ Gary Busey
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
~ Charles Hodge
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!
~ Tony Robbins
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
~ Peter Eisenman
Calmness is the cradle of power.
~ J.G. Holland
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
~ Henry Miller
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
~ George Orwell
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.
~ Phil Pringle
The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
~ Neil Diamond
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
~ Voltaire
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.
~ Carolina Herrera
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
~ Charles Duhigg
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
~ August Strindberg
Where there is no common power, there is no law
~ Thomas Hobbes
If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.
~ Swami Vivekananda
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
~ Kevin DeYoung