Quotes about pow
powerful believe book
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints Charles Colson
powerful believe men
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity. Charles Darwin
powerful men animal
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?
powerful giving environmental
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
powerful struggle race
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
powerful science break-through
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts. Charles Babbage
powerful study promotion
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
powerful science discovery
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.
powerful agents most-powerful
The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it. Blake Lively
powerful night world
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. Blaise Pascal
powerful giving
We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.
power protect property
The property of power is to protect.
powerful justice together
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
powerful leader vision
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal. Bill Hybels
powerful real thinking
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are Bill Hicks
powerful tape evidence
Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading. Brendan Sullivan
powerful challenges brain
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it! Brendon Burchard
powerful sight nerd
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth. Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary. Brennan Manning
powerful motivation inspiration
The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
powerful guilt fuel
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
powerful example intimacy
There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.
powerful not-good-enough emotion
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
powerful teaching screw-ups
The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.
powerful writing america
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. Brad Thor
powerful ideas perceive
Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being. Bonnie Raitt
powerful reality thinking
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys story. Bobby Farrelly
powerful thinking political
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. Barbara Bush
powerful voice miracle
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again. Arthur Schopenhauer
powerful war mean
For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command. Arleigh Burke
powerful important should
What Is, is more important than What Should Be. Bruce Lee
powerful fire brilliant
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
powerful self helping
Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.
powerful men roots
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.