Top 1200 Staying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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 power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

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.

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

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

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

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

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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