Power Quotes

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones!

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do

There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

Faith can turn the night to light.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

Knowledge itself is power