Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

When you practice yoga regularly, you get more then you will from jogging on the treadmill catching up on the last season of 'Lost.' When you practice yoga, you use your body and your mind, and you're gaining awareness and intuition.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

The Hyperledger Project is gaining traction on a daily basis, displaying how vital this effort is in advancing distributed ledger technology. Uniting the industry to drive this initiative forward is paramount to the success of distributed ledger technology.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

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

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.