Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Never look back; something is always gaining on you.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

If I don't work out, I lose weight instead of gaining it.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

For me, Hello' was more of getting my confidence back and gaining the audience's trust.

You're gaining more than you're losing in a small town.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Being with Dortmund and playing in more big games there, it's just gaining experience.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

I ended up gaining a bunch of weight on a vegetarian diet.

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

It is all about gaining in confidence with every given opportunity.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them.

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.