Quotes
Quotes about Power
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.
Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing pleased multitude, Where every something being blent together Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy Expressed and not expressed.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
I worked with patience which means almost power.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,) With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without.
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
