Top 1200 Personal Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

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 need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security for peaceful resignation. That's very important because we're all afraid that he will stick to power to his deathbed and just kill a lot of people along the way. If he is willing to go, we shall buy him an island in the Caribbean or in the Pacific Ocean with nice girls - like a separate country for him.

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

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.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

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

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

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.

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

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

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.