What Is Power Quotes

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.

Anything anybody's used, a comb, a lock of hair, a drop of sweat, anything that comes from somebody's body has incredible magical power.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.

All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Don't give up your power.

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'