Top 1200 Power Of Persuasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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.

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

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 power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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

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.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

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

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

No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

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

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

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

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

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

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

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.

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.

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