Top 1200 Real Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation...Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I have people say that they love how I keep them off balance as to what is real or not real about pretty much everything I write. I think it's an accurate description of how I feel every day. I can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. I think that's what makes art.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

Power is emotionless; yet one with personal power will experience more emotions.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations and vast economic inequalities that have generated what has become a country in which it is almost impossible to recognize the ideals of a real democracy.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.