What Is Power Quotes

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

Power factions fight back with lies.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.