Quotes about power
powerful earth-day arrogance
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. Paul Johnson
powerful lying thinking
It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. Kristen Wiig
powerful war enemy
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Omar N. Bradley
powerful remember-you remembers-you
Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions. Oprah Winfrey
powerful doors life-is
That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing. Oprah Winfrey
powerful women believe
Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
powerful purpose life-is
When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful. Oprah Winfrey
powerful poignant right-direction
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction. Oprah Winfrey
powerful choose-wisely walking
You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely. Oprah Winfrey
powerful power-of-love shows
Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love. Oprah Winfrey
powerful sitting intention
We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now. Oprah Winfrey
powerful dots purpose
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life. Oprah Winfrey
powerful clouds rainbow
Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud. Oprah Winfrey
powerful giving priorities
Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others. Oprah Winfrey
powerful self persons
What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self. Oprah Winfrey
powerful building one-thing
Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER. Oprah Winfrey
powerful women together
When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen! Oprah Winfrey
powerful believe today
Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it. Oprah Winfrey
powerful caring play
The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share. Oprah Winfrey
power who-i-am watches
I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly. Oprah Winfrey
powerful thinking dressing-up
I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful. Olivia Munn
powerful essence world
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir. Olivia Wilde
powerful army soul
The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices. Oliver Goldsmith
powerful enemy enthusiasm
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Oliver Goldsmith
powerful hunger conscience
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience. Margaret Atwood
powerful naughty whispering
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt. Margaret Atwood
powerful evil rich
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die? Margaret Atwood
powerful different puddles
Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless. Margaret Atwood
powerful what-if debate
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before. Margaret Atwood
powerful age littles
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful. Marcus Tullius Cicero
powerful voice judging
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds... Marcus Tullius Cicero
powerful men honorable-man
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. Marcus Tullius Cicero
powerful past giving
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it Marcus Tullius Cicero