I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

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.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Biology always beats will power.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.