1. The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. - Joe Biden
2. There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office. - Joe Biden
3. The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. - Joe Biden
4. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw
5. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
6. Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. - George Bernard Shaw
7. She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
8. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. - George Bernard Shaw
9. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. - C. S. Lewis
11. What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. - C. S. Lewis
12. Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself. - Sun Tzu
13. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. - Walt Whitman
14. I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte
15. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. - Napoleon Bonaparte
16. One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. - Napoleon Bonaparte
17. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. - Alexander Graham Bell
18. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. - Wayne Dyer
19. Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt. - Wayne Dyer
20. There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love. - Wayne Dyer
21. Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. - Oprah Winfrey
22. 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
23. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. - Oprah Winfrey
24. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. - Edgar Allan Poe
25. The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. - Malcolm X
26. Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. - Malcolm X
27. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. - Malcolm X
28. Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. - Malcolm X
29. All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. - Albert Camus
30. The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? - John Muir
31. The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat. - John Muir
32. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. - James Baldwin
33. But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. - James Baldwin
34. Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Carl Jung
35. Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. - Leonardo da Vinci
36. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. - Robert Frost
37. I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost
38. I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. - Stephen Hawking
39. Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power. - John Wooden
40. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus
41. 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. - Joel Osteen
42. Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside. - Joel Osteen
43. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. - Peter Drucker
44. Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. - Peter Drucker
45. Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. - Peter Drucker
46. And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. - Rumi
47. Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' - Bill Gates
48. If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. - Eckhart Tolle
49. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. - Eckhart Tolle
50. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. - Eckhart Tolle
51. The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. - Eckhart Tolle
52. 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. - Eckhart Tolle
53. Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. - Eckhart Tolle
54. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. - Vincent Van Gogh
55. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
56. If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. - Dalai Lama
57. If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being. - Dalai Lama
58. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey
59. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan
60. We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. - Les Brown
61. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. - Tony Robbins
62. Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. - Tony Robbins
63. One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. - Tony Robbins
64. Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. - Tony Robbins
65. My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick. - Nipsey Hussle
66. People that's in power - the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally - they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media. - Nipsey Hussle
67. I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are. - Nipsey Hussle
68. When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs. - Nipsey Hussle
69. Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. - Thich Nhat Hanh
70. Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. - Thich Nhat Hanh
71. I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em. - Yogi Berra
72. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. - George Washington
73. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. - George Washington
74. There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. - Charles Spurgeon
75. The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution. - Charles Spurgeon
76. Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. - Charles Spurgeon
77. Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest. - Charles Spurgeon
78. Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. - Elizabeth Warren
79. Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off. - Elizabeth Warren
80. Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. - Elizabeth Warren
81. Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. - Kanye West
82. There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people. - Kanye West
83. I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power. - Kanye West
84. We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. - Maria Montessori
85. Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. - Thomas Sowell
86. Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. - Isaac Newton
87. The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity. - Isaac Newton
88. I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power. - Michelle Obama
89. For me, education was power. - Michelle Obama
90. We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need. - Michelle Obama
91. The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. - Noam Chomsky
92. I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. - Noam Chomsky
93. Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. - Noam Chomsky
94. The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. - Noam Chomsky
95. The 'anti-globalization movement' is the most significant proponent of globalization - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. - Noam Chomsky
96. Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. - Noam Chomsky
97. The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. - Noam Chomsky
98. The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. - Noam Chomsky
99. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. - Noam Chomsky
100. People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. - Noam Chomsky
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