Power Quotes
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.
If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.
I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.