Top 1000 Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.