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Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.