Top 1200 Legitimate Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more 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.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

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

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

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

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

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

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

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

I really do think (and likely I'm a bit delusional) that if I still had time, with the drive and love for the game that I have now, I could've maybe made a legitimate run at the NHL - or at least that's what I tell myself.

I recognize and appreciate the legitimate concerns of residents and officials in southwestern New Mexico, particularly Hidalgo County, who have asked for our assistance, as migrants and asylum-seekers continue to appear at their doorstep.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

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.

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

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

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

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

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

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

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

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate - like 'glorification' of terrorism and religious hatred - but take a 'zero-tolerance' approach to extremists inciting violence.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this 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.

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

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.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

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

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.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

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

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.