Power
The power of a self-fulfilling prophecy is that it can change the course of your life.
Author: Norman SchwarzkopfTopics: Famous, Life, Power
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
Author: Walter ScottTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Power
The voice of the people is stronger than the voice of power.
Author: William Jennings BryanTopics: Famous, Power
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.
Author: Wayne DyerTopics: Famous, Power
Power is power. It’s energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
Author: Yoko OnoTopics: Famous, Feelings, Power
Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
Author: Linus PaulingTopics: Famous, Great, Power
Power is being told you’re not loved and not being destroyed by it.
Author: MadonnaTopics: Famous, Life, Power

Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Power
Every ascent is a testament to the power of human determination and spirit.
Author: Edmund HillaryTopics: Famous, Human, Power
We must harness the power of technology for nation-building.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, Power, Technology

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
Author: Charles BabbageTopics: Ability, Power
Cinema is a reflection of society. It has the power to change and influence minds.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: Mind, Power, Society
The power of cinema lies in its ability to evoke emotions.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: Emotion, Power
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: Chance, Money, Power
Music has the power to change the world, one song at a time.
Author: Zac HansonTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Music, Power
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christ, Cross, Famous, Power, Selfishness, Want
I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Darkness, Engineers, Enlightenment, Good, Hope, Power, Reason
Every man has power to ‘lose his own soul’ (Matthew 26:26).
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Losing, Power, Soul
You’re trying to make someone wet their pants and you’re trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That’s the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Comics, Famous, Humor, Motivation, Pants, Power, Trying
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Pleasure, Power, Propose
All that is literature seeks to communicate power
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Literature, Meaningful, Power
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is – to teach; the function of the second is – to move
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Meaningful, Power
If cops were viewed as the enemy, the tenuous balance of power could shift. Laws would be broken out of contempt. Authority wouldn’t be acknowledged. Police officers might even be attacked, or worse.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Acknowledgement, Enemy, Famous, Laws, Police, Power, Shift
The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Power, Prayer, Religion
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Enriched, Famous, Feelings, God, Goodness, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Power, Wisdom
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Power, Sand, Wrong
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Possession, Possible, Power
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Power
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Exercise, Famous, Feelings, Influence, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Poetry, Power
Power,” he wrote, “always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambitions, avarice, love and resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety and so much overpowering eloquence that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience and convert both to their party.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Party, Power, Resentment, Service, Understanding
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Enemies, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Power
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Power, Public
I believe in the power of books. They’re like a portable life.
Author: A. J. JacobTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Power, Power of music, Power of nature, Will, Will power
The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Alone, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Power

Great stories resonate because they tap into universal truths; that’s the power of compelling characters
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Character, Power, Power of music, Power of nature, Stories, Truth, Universal expression, Universal Impact
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Ability, Famous, Feelings, Law, Life, Meaningful, Power
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Global, Identity, Latinos, Leaving, Level, Power, Proving

You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Millions, Music, Power, Reaching

By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Erase, Famous, Language Discrimination, Music, Power, Powerful Message, Powerful mindset, Powerful motivation, Racism, Togetherness, Unity

My inclination to go by the Air Express is confirmed by the crash they had yesterday, which will make them more careful in the immediate future.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Express, Expressing, Power, Power of vision, Times, Times of difficulty, Will, Will power, Willing
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Command, Economic, National, Power, Themselves
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
Topics: Display, Power, Powerful, PreviouslyThis Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Forgiveness, Meaningful, Power, World
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Power, Reach, Thoughts, Visions
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Action, Famous, Greatest, Heaven, Meaningful, Pleasure, Power
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience . . . . A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Numbers, Power, Relief, States
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Essential, Famous, Government, People, Power
Power is of an encroaching nature.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Church, Famous, Nature, Power, Separation, States
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Done, Famous, Interest, Liberty, Power, Reality, Wrong
There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by…corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Evil, Famous, Growing, Power
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Fountain, Government, Liberty, People, Power
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Community, Famous, Government, Majority, Power
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Free, Function, Government, Judges, Laws, Power, Principles, Safe, War
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, God, Political, Power, Religions
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to usurpation on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Govt. from interference in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Civil, Famous, Power, Religions, Rights
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Oppression, Power, Privacy, Real
I always find that the very perception of beauty is always a kind of strange power.
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Always, Kind, Kindest, Kindness, Power, Power of nature, Power of vision, Strange, Strange things
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Giving, Information, People, Power
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty, People, Power
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example, and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Europe, Famous, Granted, Liberty, Power
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Degree, Distrust, Famous, Men, Power
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Forever, Ignorance, Knowledge, Meaningful, People, Power
We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being, whose power regulates the destiny of nations.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Guardianship, Guidance, Nation, Power, Regulate
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Danger, Famous, Government, Oppression, Power, Real
If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Majority, Political parties, Power, Society
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Confusion, Famous, Freedom, Injustice, Leaders, Power
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Destroyed, Goodness, Power, Pure
As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Creative, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power
Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power, Settle
If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Famous, Heart, Individuals, Power
All life likes power, and Beauty Smith was no exception. Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him. But Beauty Smith had not created himself, and no blame was to be attached to him. He had come into the world with a twisted body and a brute intelligence. This had constituted the clay of him, and it had not been kindly moulded by the world.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Creatures, Expression, Power, World
Power will be the arbiter, as it always has been the arbiter. It is a struggle of classes. Just as your class dragged down the old feudal nobility, so shall it be dragged down by my class, the working class.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Always, Class, Power, Struggle
Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only – MISMANAGEMENT.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Increased, Power, Producing
I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Creating, Famous, Fiction, Power, Reason, Rules, Story, World, Write
In that moment I found a power beyond any I’d had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn’t been able to find for a lesser cause.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Determination, Famous, Find, Moment, Power, Will
My thesis is that for us as human beings there are two fundamentally opposed realities, two different modes of experience; that each is of ultimate importance in bringing about the recognisably human world; and that their difference is rooted in the bihemispheric structure of the brain. It follows that the hemispheres need to co-operate, but I believe they are in fact involved in a sort of power struggle, and that this explains many aspects of contemporary Western culture.
Author: Iain McGilchristTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Human, Human Being, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power, World
Through the experience of time, Dasein becomes a ‘being towards death’: without death existence would be care-less, would lack the power that draws us to one another and to the world.
Author: Iain McGilchristTopics: Death, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power