Quotes
Quotes about Power
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.
The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
"Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.
