Quotes about power
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.
powerful reality mastery
Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.
powerful knowing movement
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
powerful talking earthquakes
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name." Edwidge Danticat
powerful influence storyteller
Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
powerful ambition source
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill! Edward Young
power mind politics
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Edmund Burke
power sublime modification
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
powerful people be-good
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
power government law
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
power hands guilty
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
power law enmity
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
power men world
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
powerful causes enthusiasm
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.
power politics corruption
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
power years looks
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
power-of-now stripping new-earth
Die before you die and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle
power-of-now conscious
...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.
powerful reality resistance
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.
powerful doors car
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
power-of-now
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
powerful judging mind
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.
powerful healing breathing
Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way by becoming aware of your breathing and learning to hold your attention there. This is a healing and deeply empowering thing to do. It brings about a shift in consciousness from the conceptual world of thought to the inner realm of unconditioned consciousness.
powerful thinking over-you
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.
powerful responsibility consciousness
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
powerful mean creating
Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.
powerful real inspirational-life
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real." "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
powerful turkeys trying
In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already. Elif Safak
powerful fun laughing
I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
powerful love-and-friendship world
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship. Elie Wiesel