Power Quotes

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; "You + God = Enough

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

Power is knowing your past.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

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.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.