Quotes on Power

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”

Nicole Krauss

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

Steve Maraboli

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Anaïs Nin

“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”

Roy T. Bennett

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

Virginia Woolf

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

Steve Maraboli

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”

Mark A. Cooper

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”

Steve Maraboli

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”

Joss Whedon

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”

Nina LaCour

“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you'll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”

Ana Huang

“You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.”

Nikita Gill

“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”

Roman Payne

“How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.”

Steve Maraboli

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”

Tony DeLiso

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

Cassandra Clare

“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”

Tony DeLiso

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

Shannon L. Alder

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Michel Foucault

“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”

Aberjhani

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

Sue Monk Kidd

“Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”

Steve Maraboli

“Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.”

Irving Berlin

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

Aaron Lauritsen

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”

Sidney Sheldon

“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”

Carl Sagan

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

Aaron Lauritsen

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

David Brin

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”

Amit Ray

“How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.”

Steve Maraboli

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

Frank Herbert

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”

Zaman Ali

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

Amit Kalantri

“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo

“Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”

Mohadesa Najumi

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

Amit Kalantri

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.”

May Sarton

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?”

George Deacon

“I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.”

Fred Rogers

“If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.”

Chris Burkmenn

“The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.”

Philip Pullman

“The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human.”

Pawan Mishra

“I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.”

Tana French

“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”

Jason Mraz

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

Kahlil Gibran

“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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