Top 1200 Greater Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart is the power of life itself, the power of the very intelligence that pervades and underlies the entire universe. It is a power that lies at the very heart of the universe. So to live in connectedness with that, then you are in touch with the power of the heart.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.