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Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the “benefits” of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people to listen, you have opened your mind for them to read. Think positively; talk positively!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.
— J.R. Rim
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome.
— Lorenzo Victory, Anything Is Possible: Thought-Provoking Quotes to Inspire Your Mind
Power like no other...
— Powercare
Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Words can heal, words can also kill. Choose your words carefully so that you'll pull people away from their emotional graves rather than pushing them into it! Inspire, don't insult!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.
— Angelo Quiamco
A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power.
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
May the might power of the Holy Spirit renew our thoughts and attitudes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Having power and position in the spiritual realm still doesn’t mean that you are reigning inreal life
— Sunday Adelaja
When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no powerwill be able to hinder you achieving your set goals.
— Sunday Adelaja
God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.
— Ari Gold, The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
Whatever the religion, we are formatted to accept hierarchy without any questions and while most management studies discuss business models, organisation and power structure, they seldom question the different types of hierarchies. One has to wonder if this hierarchy really is an absolute truth…
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whi
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
With the sort of power these new processes granted them, the members of the brotherhood were in the perfect position to seize power. In any other country, a massive, bloody war would have ensued. Horrors would have stalked the land, unholy amalgamations of flesh would have fought on the fields, and the nights would have new, unspeakable terrors.Fortunately, this is Belgium we're talking about.
— Daniel O'Malley, The Rook
The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That’s the irony.
— Michael Soll, Scorched
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
— Carol Ann Duffy
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Love is my strength, love is my power.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.
— Lena Karynn Tesla, Something More
Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.
— David Kipper, The Addiction Solution: Unraveling the Mysteries of Addiction through Cutting-Edge Brain Science
Speak to me about power. What is it?”	I do believe I’m being out-Cambridged. “You want me to discuss power? Right here and now?”	Her shapely head tilts. “No time except the present.”	“Okay.” Only for a ten. “Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn’t, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would.”	Immaculée Constantin is unreadable. “How?”	“By coercion and reward. Carrots and sticks, though in bad light one looks much like the other. Coercion is predicated upon the fear of violence or suffering. ‘Obey, or you’ll regret it.’ Tenth-century Danes exacted tribute by it; the cohesion of the Warsaw Pact rested upon it; and playground bullies rule by it. Law and order relies upon it. That’s why we bang up criminals and why even democracies seek to monopolize force.” Immaculée Constantin watches my face as I talk; it’s thrilling and distracting. “Reward works by promising ‘Obey and benefit.’ This dynamic is at work in, let’s say, the positioning of NATO bases in nonmember states, dog training, and putting up with a shitty job for your working life. How am I doing?”	Security Goblin’s sneeze booms through the chapel.	“You scratch the surface,” says Immaculée Constantin.	I feel lust and annoyance. “Scratch deeper, then.”	She brushes a tuft of fluff off her glove and appears to address her hand: “Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term side effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. Power’s comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballot box, diktat, and accident of birth, are the plot of history. The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.” Immaculée Constantin now looks up at me. “Power will notice you. Power is watching you now. Carry on as you are, and power will favor you. But power will also laugh at you, mercilessly, as you lie dying in a private clinic, a few fleeting decades from now. Power mocks all its illustrious favorites as they lie dying. ‘Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.’ That thought sickens me, Hugo Lamb, like nothing else. Doesn’t it sicken you?
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!
— Michael Delaware, Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams
Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)
— Reshma Valliappan, Fallen, Standing: My Life As A Schizophrenist
We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.
— Danielle Valenilla, Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes
Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.
— Aditya Ajmera
Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she would accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who recieve homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped Though indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us?
— Pulkit Patel
Recognise and reach out to the inherent great power within you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The more we abide in Christ, the more His grace and power transform us into His image.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru, tongue and person. To educate the old Chamoru out of the new American. The native out of the patriot...But the nastier lesson their schools taught was that their dreams were ours. That indigenous knowledge had no place in the new world...As vehicles for our assimilation, American schools have attached to our longings alien aspirations for material wealth, money and power. How much of our creativity and our vision has already been laid to waste for the sake of these?
— Julian Aguon, The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under Us Occupation
Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.
— Elizabeth George
If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.
— Bobbie Kinkead
Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true.
— Tim Crawshaw, So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.
It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
When love is your power and imagination is your guide, nothing is impossible.
— Debasish Mridha
Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth.
— Matthew Donnelly
I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.
— Matthew Donnelly
Thought is my strength and love is my power.
— Debasish Mridha
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
— Danny Silk
Your power is in your thoughts not in your physical strength,
— Debasish Mridha
Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Set yourself ablaze. Allow your light to shine upon others without fear. When you radiate from within, others cannot dampen your fire.
— Rita Johansen
You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action, But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction.
— Mouloud Benzadi
Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.
— Anthony Liccione
Immortality is the new twenty!
— Erin Fall Haskell
Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!
— Edward Lewellen
The shelf where you can find the power to kick start is the shelf of self-confidence. No matter how loaded you are with the right information, you need to pull yourself out!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)
— Charles de Leusse
Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion
—  you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!
Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denying that.’ Captain Chillingworth’s words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep well of bitterness. ‘I am sure it will do a great deal of good for some of us. But I doubt I’ll be of that number, or that many Chinamen will. The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.
— Amitav Ghosh
A positive attitude creates a passion that wakes a leader up. To the leader, attitude is more powerful than an alarm clock. Positive attitude in true leadership is what makes an alarm clock unnecessary!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
All causes are good,' Yallin told her calmly. 'And those exact same causes are all bad, depending on which side a body's on. Regent Pettibone and his followers certainly thought your mother's cause was a bad one. To my mind, causes aren't about good or bad, in the end. They're about power. That's what makes them so dangerous.
— Hilari Bell, The Sword of Waters
May the power of the Holy Spirit give us the grace, strength and wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I've always felt Lex Luthor is intensely threatened by any status or distinction he can’t buy, hence the antipathy to Superman's powers and Bruce Wayne's status as old money. Money is Luthor's superpower, and anything he can’t obtain or control with it is his kryptonite. Unlike Superman, he takes a proactive view of his kryptonite. It shouldn’t exist and he’ll do all he can to eradicate it wherever he finds it.
— Chris Dee
The air between them was electric, the scent of his aftershave was intoxicating and she could feel the testosterone bouncing off him. She could immediately tell he was a powerful man.
— Kassandra Cross, Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance
Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
In all honesty, I don’t envy you the possession of this power over memory, nor do I admire you. Because humans are usually completely unconcerned with the memories of other creatures. Human existence involves the willful destruction of the existential memories of other creatures and of your own memories as well. No life can survive without other lives, with the ecological memories of other living creatures have, memories of the environments in which the live. People don’t realize they need to rely on the memories of other organisms to survive. You think that flowers bloom in colorful profusion just to please your eyes. That a wild boar exists just to provide meat for your table. That a fish takes the bait just for you sake. That only you can mourn. That a stone falling into a gorge is of no significance. That a sambar deer, its head bent low to sip at a creek is not a revelation . . . When in fact the finest movement of any organism represents a change in an ecosystem.” The man with the compound eyes takes a deep sign and says: “But if you were any different you wouldn’t be human.
— Wu Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes
Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.
— Erich Fromm
The power of a man is like a bull’s charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won’t get you what you want.” His words perplexed me. Wasn’t power singular and simple? In the world that I knew, men just happened to have more of it. (I hoped to change this.)
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – always has, always will.
— Jayne Castel, The Breaking Dawn
Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.
— Rhealyn
A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?
— Olive Schreiner
If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Once you say “I can’t”, you suppress the left over passion in you. But you say “I can”, you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Whoever said “Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork” must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.
— Priyavrat Thareja
The power in people is stronger than people in power.
— Saji Ijiyemi
An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.
— Charisse Montgomery, Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
— Gary   Hopkins
They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.
— Suzette R. Hinton
At a time when we need an urgent national conversation about how schools and curriculum should address the environmental crisis, we're being told that the problems we need to focus on are teacher incompetence, government monopoly, and market competition. The reform agenda reflects the same private interests that are moving to shrink public space-interests that have no desire to raise questions that might encourage students to think critically about the roots of the environmental crisis, or to examine society's unsustainable distribution of wealth and power.
— Bill Bigelow
Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.
— Steve Knox
Naysayers are frightened of their own power.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Naysayers are frightened by their own power.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
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.
— Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.
— Leon Brown
Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power
— Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had power and you didn't. If he decided not to, if he treated you like a man or came to your defense, it was because he knew that the words you spoke, the clothes you wore, the books you read, your ambitions and desires, were already his. Whatever he decided to do, it was his decision to make, not yours, and because of that fundamental power he held over you, because it preceded and would outlast his individual motives and inclinations, any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.
— Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?
— H.J. Lawson, Aurum
She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
— Richard Ronald Allan, Exit Eleonora
The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.
— Carla H. Krueger
If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.
— Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Am I as admirable as that ant?
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Saikyō Densetsu Kurosawa 11
Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what it’s like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title human. I’ve bettered a day though. On earth, they will have it thus: from birth to unavoidable death, a man is pumped so full of love that his eyes bleed rainbows and his mouth a barrel of miracles. His hands will heal then make monuments to commemorate it; they’ll press tight and pray for no man, no god but himself; and his mind… his mind will shower like spring rains. He will steal away from the shadow of ambition. He’ll be his own sun and light up the world with new marvels – be they art, philosophies, science – and in his brightness put the mundane, not himself, in shadows, and how rightfully. Each a captain and a maker, a mark-setter and stealer of shows... Earth’s skies will clap with the thunder of our majesty, not with violence, doubt, confusion, futility, and monotony; anything – anything – but the dull drone of duplication and robo-behaviour.
— Richard Ronald Allan, Exit Eleonora
I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that it would falter, it didn’t. It’s still here. You see, the essence of trust is not knowing a person’s motive; it’s knowing what isn’t. It’s a simple process of trial and error that gets you to the heart of a man; and once that soft voice and those light feet of yours got to moving I saw in you no measure of ill intent.
— Richard Ronald Allan, Exit Eleonora
We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.
— Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see.
— Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.
— Amanda  Hudson, Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe
All people who come to the dark come for power.
— Amanda  Hudson, Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe
Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic - no fiction. Stop playin' with your power, your inner 'G', and build on purpose - accordingly. Being free is for free, so force the issue.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.
— Laurence Overmire, Report from X-Star 10
How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget the ocean, that deplorable casket, and turn on the true bottomless tumbler, the only running tap: the sky? It may have lost the title ‘heavens’ when its gods were dethroned, but its infinity reigns. So long as you walk, it reigns. So long as I talk and you listen, there’s a voice and ears to keep it active, moving, and reason to say: look! infinity lives. And when we and the other consciousnesses pass, though it in part dies with us, still it reigns. It will, in a sense, plod on, like a lifeless coffin through its own space, sails set for nothing, unstoppable when trailing its fabric.
— Richard Ronald Allan
No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It seems some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams " haha
— irak.ibrahim hussain didi
Might without right makes blight
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
A show of power is not the same as silent power.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.
— Dennis Lehane
Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there’s always room to grow DEEPER!
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
— Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
RebukeObstinate regressionbringing untold pathsof deep dark forebodingdepression...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Depths of Friendship...under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Bring Down The WallsI will bring down the wallsthat surround me today.I will no longer be kept quietMeek enough to drown today....
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Envy and respect are not the same things...Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so different from those who conduct autopsies; both want, at some level, to know what has happened, and, by extension, what will happen. Did the liver fail because of the decedent's alcoholism or was some toxin administered? If the deliverer is found, he or she may be imprisoned or, in more honest times, hanged, and thus pose no further threat. Or for the gawker at the accident, espying loose parts not unlike his or her own parts strewn amid wreckage may lead to a sense of awe at death's power, or horror at life's fragility, either of which may be instructive in any number of ways.
— Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead
Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Parent
Music, brings the soul alive.Music promotes wellness and sound mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I don't speak just so I can be heard
—  I speak only when I find it absolutely necessary to do so.
The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.
— Cormac McCarthy
Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
power happily walks hand in hand with abuse
— Dean Cavanagh
Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.
— Mercedes Lackey, Oathbreakers
Ignorance annihilates self.
— Jason Barnett
Hope, positive wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Many, if not most, of the miracles recorded in the Gospels can, in fact, be directly connected to the earlier miracle of the Creation. The same Being who, as Jehovah, organized the elements and framed the heavens and the earth was thus, as the Man of Galilee, able to control the winds and the waves. He could change water to wine, multiply loaves and fishes, heal bodies, and restore sight by the same power...that he had exercised in the beginning.
— Eric D. Huntsman, The Miracles of Jesus
Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.
— Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own.
— Bharath Mamidoju
My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet.Speed is my ally. Breathe. In and out. Focus. Time is my power.
— Lori M. Lee, Gates of Thread and Stone
Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.
— Lara Adrian, Shades of Midnight
Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.
— Frank Herbert
Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.
— Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.
— Brandon Mull, The Rogue Knight
Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.
— Brandon Mull, The Rogue Knight
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
— David Brooks
When you have passion, you don't need coffee.
— Rob Liano
For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
You were born to lead people out of the darkness into light in the power of God. Dare to rise up to this calling! Never stand low for satan to mess up your destiny. You are a pencil in the hands of God!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Power came the way a child came -- with agony.
— Octavia E. Butler
Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.
— Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.
— Clay Christensen
... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.
— Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. "So why won't the radio play?""I don't know," he said. "Try connecting them here."He was pointing toward a socket on the radio labeled "AC," and when I shoved the wires inside, the radio came to life. We shouted with excitement. As I pedaled the bicycle, I could hear the great Billy Kaunda playing his happy music on Radio Two, and that made Geoffrey start to dance."Keep pedaling," he said. "That's it, just keep pedaling.""Hey, I want to dance, too.""You'll have to wait your turn."Without realizing it, I'd just discovered the difference between alternating and direct current. Of course, I wouldn't know what this meant until much later.After a few minutes of pedaling this upside-down bike by hand, my arm grew tired and the radio slowly died. So I began thinking, "What can do the pedaling for us so Geoffrey and I can dance?
— William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and in quiet, earnest prayers as well as in the heart of one who loves.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Power belongs in the hands of love, not memories.
— James Avery Fuchs, Gasoline and Winter
My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It's never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level 'symptomatics'. How we deal with the energy it brings, however, is telling of how we choose to respond. There's no escaping Earth-School lessons. Embrace that it's still about your development, and not the illusion of fear's representative attempting to lead you astray. Be conscious and see free.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel
— Paige Omartian
I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!And I am living the 'Great Adventure'..this moment..NOW!!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
World Peace will be achieved the day Humans, embrace The Power of Love and forgo their Love of Power.
— Ali Fissam
Hard work will never kill you
—  it's only going to make you gain more muscles to gather your bumper harvests! Do it and do it hard!
i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact,stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love
— irak.ibrahim hussain didi
There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.
— Shannon L. Alder
People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir
The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
— Criss Jami, Healology
When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
— Zelda la Grange
The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.
— Plato, Ion
The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.
— Carl William Brown, Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.
— Carl William Brown, Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.
— Kishore Bansal
Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.)
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
This is why it is so fundamental for us right now to grab hold of this idea of power and to democratize it. One of the things that is so profoundly exciting and challenging about this moment is that as a result of this power illiteracy that is so pervasive, there is a concentration of knowledge, of understanding, of clout. I mean, think about it: How does a friendship become a subsidy? Seamlessly, when a senior government official decides to leave government and become a lobbyist for a private interest and convert his or her relationships into capital for their new masters. How does a bias become a policy? Insidiously, just the way that stop-and-frisk, for instance, became over time a bureaucratic numbers game. How does a slogan become a movement? Virally, in the way that the Tea Party, for instance, was able to take the "Don't Tread on Me" flag from the American Revolution, or how, on the other side, a band of activists could take a magazine headline, "Occupy Wall Street," and turn that into a global meme and movement. The thing is, though, most people aren't looking for and don't want to see these realities. So much of this ignorance, this civic illiteracy, is willful. There are some millennials, for instance, who think the whole business is just sordid. They don't want to have anything to do with politics. They'd rather just opt out and engage in volunteerism. There are some techies out there who believe that the cure-all for any power imbalance or power abuse is simply more data, more transparency. There are some on the left who think power resides only with corporations, and some on the right who think power resides only with government, each side blinded by their selective outrage. There are the naive who believe that good things just happen and the cynical who believe that bad things just happen, the fortunate and unfortunate unlike who think that their lot is simply what they deserve rather than the eminently alterable result of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power.
— Eric Liu