Will Power Quotes
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.
I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.
When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.
What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.
You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.
As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.
There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
