Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

I've fought a lot of guys with power. It takes more than power to win a fight.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.

Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

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

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.