What Is Power Quotes

Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

Power is neither male or female.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

We have power over nothing except our will.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it.

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.