Power Quotes

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.