Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful positive life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within, there lies the power to persuade there the life - there if one must speak out the real man.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

People crushed by laws have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies they will be enemies to the law, and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong wrong will generally be done.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Dealing with backstabbers there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears it seems are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

No other weapon has the power of forbearance. It should not be used only as an individual instrument. It has to be experienced collectively also. That is the reason why the scripture has commended collective forbearance at the very outset of the spiritual quest. What is its inner meaning?

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak that you are a sinner a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power, they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men, and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared there will always be confusion and hate wars and class antagonisms.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends, that's the good stuff in life.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he if he had the power would be justified in silencing mankind.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Knowledge will give you power but character respect.

Well I think by definition all power has limits.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

The love of liberty is the love of others, the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction to wit: by consolidation of power first and then corruption its necessary consequence.

They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up even in advanced age as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

It is a truism that almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves without revelation admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Your most precious valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication they're tools of creativity and they can be shaped by their user.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people, that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear, after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Some managers remain effective well into their 80s others noticeably fade in their 60s. When their abilities ebb so usually do their powers of self-assessment.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns why should we let them have ideas.

Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

Beauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast, in the pool where you least expect it there will be fish.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

And the biggest coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

It is the immanent all-pervasive power of the Divine that reveals Itself in numerous ways.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Where love rules there is no will to power, and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Art has the power to transform to illuminate to educate inspire and motivate.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison ... without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The more complicated and powerful the job the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

The men of experiment are like the ant they only collect and use, the reasoners resemble spiders who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important which is empowering people with software.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers controlling human destiny to which obedience and worship are due

For knowledge itself is power.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

If you think of paying court to the men in power your eternal ruin is assured.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Words derive their power from the original word.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power they bid you good-bye.

Woman's influence is powerful especially when she wants something.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself, but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Character is power.

I can inspire people on how to use money how to get economically powerful.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

In every power of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

The more ignorant reckless and thoughtless a doctor is the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long where it really is nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Knowledge itself is power

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Justice without force is powerless, force without justice is tyrannical.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power, but character health knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Knowlege is power.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

As regards the individual nature woman is defective and misbegotten for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex, while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

There is only one thing for us to do and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives, To use our best judgment and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Albert Einstein, when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe, answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was the more empowering it was for me.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful, one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous

I believe in one thing only the power of human will.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

EPO is a powerful drug ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy we see into the life of things.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the Great Society.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Lets have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

Love it has been said flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents, and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

There's a great power in words if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Money: power at its most liquid.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality, man alone can dream and make his dreams come true.

Welcome those big sticky complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow, make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

God is omnipotent. All powerful

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Civilization will not last freedom will not survive peace will not be kept unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will

The earth is supported by the power of truth, it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow, indeed all things rest upon truth.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself but for predecessors as well.

As a man is so he sees. As the eye is formed such are its powers.

Consider again and again the following: the right time the right friends the right place the right means of income the right ways of spending and from whom you derive your power.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do especially in Philadelphia in 1787 four months they argued about what a House should be what a Senate should be the power of the president the Congress the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

I believe in delegating power.

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.

Pessimism leads to weakness optimism to power.

Clairvoyant n.: A person commonly a woman who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely that he is a blockhead.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

God exists if only in the form of a meme with high survival value or infective power in the environment provided by human culture.

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 the messengers of overwhelming grief of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment the capacity to believe or at some point in your life when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself you simply make an agreement.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.

Tonight we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers or the power of our military or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that along with capitalism scientific innovation those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets bad developments are not hidden anymore.

O Man! Thou feeble tenant of an hour Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust thy friendship all a cheat Thy smiles hypocrisy thy word deceit! By n

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must nevertheless suffer for it.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

All the idols made by man however terrifying they may be are in point of fact subordinate to him and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar familiar things new.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The people are the government administering it by their agents, they are the government the sovereign power.

Knowledge is power.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power the will to power power itself in man.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.

Words are of course the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

You may feel powerless as a child but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So seize the day and take charge of it.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within,...You will find there perchance slavish thoughts slavish desires and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these, cease to be a slave to self and no man will have the power to enslave you.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

Power does not corrupt men, fools however if they get into a position of power corrupt power.

Here at this site Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers instead of a path of thorns.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual no training course.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

My power is immeasurable, My Truth is inexplicable unfathomable. I am announcing this about Me for the need has arisen. But what I am doing now is only a gift of a visiting card.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few, and that too at the expense of social pleasure health conscience life.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can do.

When you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm, then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best but what is easily within our power and suited for our temperament and condition.

Anyway no drug not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles we shouldn't test people for drugs we should test them for stupidity ignorance greed and love of power.

It is for us to pray, not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire, forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but by your own estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

When every physical and mental resources is focused one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too.

With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others one can attain happiness in any group or community and the very eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service.Nowadays we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve but there is great worth in service.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman I'm empowered I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error, to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action, to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Photography as a powerful medium of expression and communications offers an infinite variety of perception interpretation and execution.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory, they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

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.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged, no harm can be done.

Circumstances are beyond human control but our conduct is in our own power.

Beauty attracts us men, but if like an armed magnet it is pointed beside with gold and silver it attracts with tenfold power.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.