138 quotes
“The only difference between a hero and a villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish”
— Chadwick Boseman
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less important whether I am afraid”
— Audre Lorde
“Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful”
— Paulo Freire
“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already within our families.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The point of power is always in the present moment.”
— Louise Hay
“Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking kindness bridges the two”
— Carl Jung
“The power plant doesnt have energy, it generates energy.”
— Brendon Burchard
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth is powerful and it prevails”
— Sojourner Truth
“Give your daughters difficult names give them names that command the full use of tongue and that is how naming heals”
— Warsan Shire
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
— Epictetus
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
— Maya Angelou
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao Tzu
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
— Stendhal
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear”
— Leo Buscaglia
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time”
— Aristotle
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
— Isaiah Berlin
“World peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”
— Sri Chinmoy
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— Alice Walker
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
— Marianne Williamson
“The powers that be are not simply people they are structures systems and institutions”
— Walter Wink
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
“A word after a word after a word is power. Creative writing is the accumulation of small powerful acts.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Self-care is how you take your power back.”
— Lalah Delia
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
— William Shakespeare
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”
“Alone in our families we can do so little but together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller
“The point of power is always in the present moment”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power”
“Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not”
— Samuel Johnson
“The point of power is always in the present moment right here and right now”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any but kindness is a power everyone possesses”
“Your power is in your thoughts so stay awake. In other words remember to remember.”
— Rhonda Byrne
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”
— Muhammad Ali
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power after failure”
“Silence is a place of great power and healing”
— Sara Maitland
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
— Roseanne Barr
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.”
— Wilma Rudolph
“In every community there is work to be done and in every heart there is the power of faith to do it”
“The task of the public sphere is to subject the powerful to critique.”
— Jurgen Habermas
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
— Steve Maraboli
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
— Chinua Achebe
“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
— Michel Foucault
“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy”
— John Marshall
“Creativity is the power to reject the past and change the status quo”
— Ai Weiwei
“The most powerful thing you can do for another person is to be kind when the world tells you not to be”
— Tara Westover
“In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“Power without knowledge is useless.”
— Socrates
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens in time”
“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”
— Alexander McQueen
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.”
“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.”
— Thomas De Quincey
“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”
“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking and faith restores love to its rightful place”
“Remember that knowledge is power.”
“Knowledge is power, but using it is growth.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Knowledge is not absolute power.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“Knowledge itself is power.”
“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 dont”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest compliment”
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything that you have believed.”
“Gratitude opens the door to the power the wisdom the creativity of the universe.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
— Tony Robbins
“Knowledge is power and failure is the teacher that grants it”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
— Lord Acton
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
— Seneca
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost”
— William Hazlitt
“The power plant does not have energy, it generates energy.”
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“Until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Peace and change are always possible.”
“You have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strength”
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
— Thucydides
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