What Is Power Quotes

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

see the things that you want as already yours

Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.

The more love you give in your day-to-day life, the greater the magnetic power of love you have in the field around you, and everything you want will fall at your feet.

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

Mind is all that counts.

Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

We don’t know what we’re capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.