Top 1200 Higher Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

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

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

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

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

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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

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

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

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

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.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

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

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

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

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Our Heavenly Father is the Father of our spirits, and Jesus Christ is the Creator of this world. They know and understand us and the world around us better than anyone else. Looking to a higher source for knowledge and power can help us far more than relying on the wisdom of the world. We need to have the Spirit and look to the prophets and our priesthood leaders. We also need to look to the scriptures, which contain God's words to holy men.

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

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.

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.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

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

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.