What Is Power Quotes

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.