What Is Power Quotes

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be.

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.

The power of intention is the power to manifest, to create, to live a life of unlimited abundance, and to attract into your life the right people at the right moments.

What power has love but forgiveness?

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

I want people to see their own power.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Freedom exists only with power.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.