Quotes on POWER

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” ~Brian Tracy

“All power is from within and therefore under our control.” ~Robert Collier

“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power." ~Lao Tzu

"All that you call the world is the shadow of that substance which you are the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are independent and of those that are independent of your will. Do not encumber yourself with the fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect and all things will
go well. You think me the child of circumstances. I make my circumstance." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson from The Transcendentalist

“All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.” ~Francis Thompson

"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Allowing people inside your life is a beautiful thing. Letting go of people who drain your spirit is another beautiful thing you can do for your life. The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go." ~Dodinsky

"And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice." ~Rumi

"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them." ~John Milton (1608-1674)

"Anticipation is power. You gotta learn to know and recognize what's coming so you could adapt to it. You gotta be able to prepare for it." ~Project Life Mastery

"Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At any given moment you have the power to say this is not how the story is going to end..." ~Ritu

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." ~Anon

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest." ~Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." ~Viktor E. Frankl

"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them." ~Goethe

“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.” ~Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

“Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.” ~James Arthur Ray

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it." ~Milton Friedman

"Deep within man dwell these slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action." ~Orison Marden

“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.” ~Euripides, The Bacchae

"Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large." ~Shari Arison

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." ~Johann Wolgang von Goethe

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." ~Brigham Young

"Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"... even though all things come to pass, our deeds will outlast our mortal lives. No amount of success, power, or position can ever compensate for the greed and corruption of human character." ~President Duterte, November 1, 2016

"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, missed happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime “let out all the length of the reins.” ~Mary Cholmondeley

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." ~2 Timothy 1:7

“For me, charity is practical. It’s the ability to use one’s position of influence, relative wealth and power to affect lives for the better." ~Simon Rowe

“For knowledge, too, is itself a power."
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
~Francis Bacon on Knowledge

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." ~Sarah Bolen

"Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.” ~Anon on Power

“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better” ~Caroline Myss

"Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, and the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude." ~Deepak Chopra

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation." ~G. Campbell Morgan

"Honesty has a power that very few people can handle." ~from Sun-gazing dot com

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." ~Samuel Smiles

"Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try."- Zig Ziglar

"I beg you to accept that there is no people on earth who wouldn’t prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.” ~Mahatma Gandhi (to British officials led by the viceroy of India: AFTER THE MASSACRE at Amritsar)

"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side." ~Ralph Steadman

"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."  ~Mike May

"I wanted a man who by inspiration alone could transfer the power to make this country proud again from the hands of the few to the hands of the many. I wanted a man who could re-ignite the Filipino in us or at least make us care enough that a few rich men (and their families and friends and employees) do not a country make." ~Arnel Patawaran, FB, 17 December 2016

"If the spirit is strong, one will appear like a deep-flowing river, calm on the surface but with tremendous power hidden in the depths." ~Hideharu Onuma

"If you want real political power, try telling the truth for a change." ~HARVEY MILK, Milk (2009)

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme." ~Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

"Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power." ~Newton Lee

"Inhumanity, greed, and corruption remained the blueprint of human power." ~Leah C. Dancel 

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you." ~Leon Brown

"It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." ~PETER PAN by J. M. Barrie

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." ~David Brin

"It's the ones who are against you who believe in your power the most." ~Karen Salmansohn

"It was the Filipino who voted me to power, and that power will remain with the Filipino." ~President RR Duterte

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." ~Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge in action is real power." ~Tom Knowles

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” ~Bib

“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until … lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom.” ~Plato

"Merit will be the decisive factor. Not whether you can gather votes by canvassing all kinds of promises and hopes, but your merit, your real power in the scientific world will decide. And once government comes into the hands of the scientist, then everything is possible." ~OSHO (Priests and Politicians: The Mafia of the Soul)

"Most people don't realise their power to create their own emotional atmosphere, and instead, let circumstances do it for them. Our emotional atmosphere IS our experience of life. Create the one you want." ~Happiness Convert

“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” ~Bertrand Russell

"Nature has the element of empowerment. And we know who the POWER behind that energising matter." ~Leah C. Dancel

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"Never underestimate stupid people

in positions of power." ~Paulo Coelho 

"Never underestimate the power of the goodness within you. This power of goodness can change or heal your life and the lives of others around you." ~A.D. Williams

"No day is wasted where there has been love shared. And as we get older we realize the power and preciousness of touching someone's life and how much that same energy touches our own life in return. Life is all about kindness." ~I Love My Family

"No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives." ~Louise L. Hay

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." ~Jacob Bronowski

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." ~Nido Qubein

"Nothing external to you has any power over you." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge." ~Theodore Roszak

"On earth, money is the power. In heaven, love is the power." ~A.D. Williams

"One can only wonder how much POWER corrupts the minds of men that involved bloodshed." ~Leah C. Dancel 

"Only fools seek power, power, and the greatest fools seek it through force." ~Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)

"Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light." ~Brené Brown

"Our inks can unite people; there is power in its every stroke, I strongly believe!" ~Helen Sarita, FPB

"Our people have the right to hope, the right to a future, the right to life itself. No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity. Our land cries out for peace. We will only achieve it through adherence to democratic principles and respect for the rights of all." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at King William's Town, Bhisho, South Africa, 8 September 1992, LTL

“Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” ~George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

 "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith, and fortify yourself from the inside out. There is a power in you that is stronger than anything that you are facing. Go within... tap into this power. Know that you will find courage, strength and resolve to go through any valley experiences. You have something special...You have GREATNESS within you!" ~Les Brown

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." ~Bertrand Russell

"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real" ~Cormac McCarthy

"Silence is a place of great power and healing." ~from Healinhg Light

"Skyscapes and hidden places have the magical power to energize your soul." ~George Daniel Anos

"So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.” ~Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Freedom and Society, p. 153

"Stay present with what is happening to you now. All power is in the present moment." ~Gary Zukav

"The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy." ~Peter McWilliams

"The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others." ~Bob Hawke

"The freedom of information is key to a balance power between the government and its citizens." ~Martin Andanar, Secretary of Philippines Communication Office, 26 November 2016

"The imagination is man's power over nature." ~Wallace Stevens 

‪"The intoxication of greed and power, loses the quality of being human. It drives their own self of reasonings to extinction." ~Rosario Larion

"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." ~John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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"The power of a compelling cause rests in the soul of its Creator, because a cause springs from the soul. It is a spiritual statement from one soul that cannot be the result of many. It comes from a deep place of knowing, some conviction that a richly imagined future could in some way, dramatically and positively, change the world." ~Lance Secretan, author “Inspirational Leadership”

"The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." ~Jane Austen (1775-1817)

"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience." ~Henry James (1843-1916)

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress." ~Indira Gandhi

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." ~Aristotle

"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing." ~Herodotus

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love." ~Rumi

"There is more power in the open heart than in the clenched fist." ~Our Daily Bread

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." ~Susan Polis Schutz

“This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.” ~Steve Maraboli

"Those among the most respected who have ever lived acknowledge that their greatness came, not from their personal self, but from a higher power working through them." ~John Marks Templeton from LLF

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

"True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments." ~Bryant McGill

"Trust that the power that moves the stars in the heavens is taking you on a journey where the only destination IS love, self expression, joy and an abundant experience of life." ~Ann Albers, The Angels

"Truth is a function of power. We should engage and resist this 'normalized truth of power politics in order to denormalize the status qou - corruption, clintelist democracy, and inequality." ~Imelda Deinla

"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power, or live a lie." ~Miyamoto Musashi

"Use your growing awareness to focus your spiritual power and reclaim the bliss that your lower mind destroys or prevents you from having." ~Michael Goddart

"We all have the power to push past life's challenges." ~Chris Norton

"We can draw power from our inner self and from our faith." ~Duoi Ampilan

"We do not know how far the power of love can take us until we love everyone." ~A.D. Williams

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” ~Thomas Paine

"We have no power over external things, and the good that ought to be the object of our earnest pursuit, is to be found only within ourselves." ~Epictetus

"We must be honest and open about the power relationships between men and women in our society, and we must help build a more enabling and supportive environment that puts the role of women centre stage in this struggle. Each one of us – sister and brother, mother and father, teacher and student, priest and parishioner, manager and worker, presidents and prime ministers – must add our voice to this call for action." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the 46664 Concert, Fancourt, George, South Africa, 19 March 2005

"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously." ~Norman Vincent Peale

"Where there is acceptance, judgment no longer has any power." ~Panache Desai

"With an eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." ~William Wordsworth

"Within you is the power to rise above any situation or struggle, and transform into the brightest, strongest version of you ever." ~The Inner Sparke

"Words are living things, they have the power to inspire, uplift, and to destroy. Think about that before you open your mouth today!" ~Michael Baisden

"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble." ~Yehuda Berg

"You have the power to heal your life...to bounce back from failure...to get another job...to open and own your business....to get out of debt...to create a new path for yourself...to stretch beyond what is safe, familiar and comfortable.....You have the power within you...to do more, love more, live more expansively and to learn much more than you do now. Believe and know that you have the power!! You have GREATNESS within you!" ~Les Brown

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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." ~Robert Fulghum

"Maybe being powerful means to be fragile." ~Ai Weiwei

"Never underestimate a woman who has nothing more than a suitcase and a dream. She may not have a big home or a big car or a big diamond. But she has the power to leave the past and start again." ~Abeer Fahim

"Never underestimate a woman who quietly finds takes her time to find her strength after heartbreak. She will emerge with a power that will leave you amazed." ~Abeer Fahim

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." ~Anthony Robbins

"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry becomes silk." ~Chinese Proverb

"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed by George Daniel Anos

"Sometimes silence is more powerful than proving a point." ~Karen Salmansohn

"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The essence of child sex abuse is around power and power imbalance ... what we're seeing is a level above that." ~Tarja Marlone of the Blue Knot Foundation, a support service for adult survivors.

"The great charm of all power is modesty." ~Anon

"‪The picture speaks thousand words of human tragedy and collapsed humanitarian system. The philosophy of world order dictated by the powerful nations is based on changing regimes they don’t like and for that they don’t hesitate bombing people and destroying cities. Once cities become graveyard, they start re-building lives by offering peanuts. They destroyed everything in Iraq and Libya. Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria are still bleeding. The unfortunate thing is they talk about people’s dignity and humanitarian principles!" ~‬Наят Карим (on current affairs January 2020/The Voice of Reason/FB

"The power of God within you is greater than the pressure of troubles around you." ~Our Daily Bread

"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.” ~Nelson Mandela

"The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth." ~Joel Osteen

"The river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." ~Jim Watkins

"The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

"The true hope of our world isn't found in its politics but in the power of God's people to be salt and light in the world." ~Dr. David Jeremiah, Turning Point

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription." ~Samuel Butler

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing." ~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

"We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully." ~Martin Buber

"When the power of love replaces the power of greed, heaven will touch earth." ~Anthony D. Williams

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor." ~Norman Vincent Peale 

"Where your focus goes, your energy flows. Focus on what you want, where you are going, and what you are
actively creating." ~Les Brown

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." ~Thomas J. Watson

"Women have served all these centuries as looking -glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." ~Virgin Woolf 

"You are powerful in that you shape the future of young people whose future is also that of our nation. This is not only in the aspect of the sizable contribution of merchant marine officers to our economy, but in their being worthy and productive citizens whose example would pass on to the next generations." ~Marichu Bergu, Guest Speaker and Lecturer

“You are more powerful than you know and they fear the day you discover it!” ~Truth Theory

"You have the power to heal the mental climate around you through affirming the truth." ~Susan Shumsky

"You need to regularly, repeatedly set time aside, to quiet yourself and refocus your thoughts on the greatness and power of God." ~Rick Warren

"You only need to stand near the ocean to feel the power of the universe and a closeness to the one who created it." ~Susan Gale

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