What Is Power Quotes

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.