Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Quality combines people power and process power.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

The main thing is confidence. I'm gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I'm confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.