961 private quotes tagged power

“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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“Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.” — Jean Paul

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“Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.” — Jim Carrey

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“There is this power that comes with being famous.” — Rod Stewart

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“The way to have power is to take it.” — Boss Tweed

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“The only power you have is the word no.” — Frances McDormand

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“Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.” — Allen Klein

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“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” — Bill O'Reilly

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“Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.” — Jill Scott

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“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.” — Bernard Baruch

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“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?” — Orison Swett Marden

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“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.” — Sophie Swetchine

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“America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.” — Adam Schiff

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“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Everett Dirksen

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“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.” — George A. Smith

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“Power ought to serve as a check to power.” — Charles de Secondat

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“The greatest power is not money power, but political power.” — Walter Annenberg

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“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.” — Charles Simmons

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“The law has no power over heroes.” — Charlotte Lennox

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“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.” — A. J. P. Taylor

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“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.” — Andrew Young

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“Power is paradoxical.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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