Power Quotes

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Joel Osteen
“It's our faith that activates the power of God.”
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Shannon L. Alder
“You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.”
Shannon Alder

RuPaul
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
RuPaul

Terry Pratchett
“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Nenia Campbell
“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”
Nenia Campbell, Crowned by Fire

Amit Ray
“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Holly Black
“Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear.”

“Ominous,” I say.

“It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.”
Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

Isaiah Berlin
“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.”
Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elective Affinities

Honoré de Balzac
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Honoré de Balzac

Leigh Bardugo
“I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.”
Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

Erik Pevernagie
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")”
Erik Pevernagie

Carmen Maria Machado
“There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is "silence." But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.”
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Mira Grant
“Words have power.”
Mira Grant, Blackout

Ashly Lorenzana
“It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.”
Ashly Lorenzana

“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Robert Greene
“Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.”
Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Fulghum
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

مصطفى صادق الرافعي
“إن اللين في القوة الرائعة أقوى من القوة نفسها، لانه يظهر لك موضع الرحمة فيها
والتواضع في الجمال أحسن من الجمال، لانه ينفي الغرور عنه.
وكل شيء من القوة لا مكان فيه لشيء من الرحمة فهو مما وضع الله على الناس من قوانين الهلاك”
مصطفى صادق الرافعي, رسائل الأحزان

Maureen Johnson
“When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.”
Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
Marian Wright Edelman

Димитър Димов
“И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.”
Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн

Ursula K. Le Guin
“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.”
David Klass, You Don't Know Me

Robin McKinley
“There are things you don't want to know you can do”
Robin McKinley, Sunshine

Morgan Matson
“It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

Steve Maraboli
“Today is the only day in which we have any power.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

T. Mountebank
“He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.”
T. Mountebank, Sister Sable