Quotes of: Powerful-thing Keyword

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Kenneth Kaunda

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Robert Shea

Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.

Life

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And pe...

City of Glass

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that wa...

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will ...

Odd Interlude #1

If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of what...

Martin Luther

One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power of the plants. And it seems all too easy for some shamans to warp that power to dark ends, to the 'shamachismo' that can drive them to...

Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

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....

Susan Polis Schutz

Love is a great power, and such a strange power...

Day Watch

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

The Love Mindset

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

Seneca

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Garet Garrett

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Huey Newton

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Nita Ambani

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Pope Benedict XVI