Power Quotes
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Anthony of Sourozh -
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Anthony Robbins -
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
Bill Clinton -
We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.
Alex Lawther -
Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.
Alexandra Pelosi -
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
Amber Hollibaugh -
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca the Younger
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You can't put an age on power.
Scott Coker -
When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.
Dean Burk -
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
Albert Camus -
I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol -
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has to play, which is the tourism.
Douglas Tompkins
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control .
Charles H. Kraft -
There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Writing must always have intention because words have power.
Suheir Hammad -
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.
Ernest Newman
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Jorge Ramos -
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
George W. S. Trow -
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
Brian D. McLaren