Quotes about Great Power

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. Votes: 4

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. Votes: 4

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. Votes: 4

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. Votes: 3

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.... Votes: 3

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. Votes: 3

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Votes: 3

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. Votes: 3

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. Votes: 3

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. Votes: 3

Great power involves great responsibility Votes: 2

He who has great power should use it lightly. Votes: 2

He who has great power should use it lightly. Votes: 2

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. Votes: 2

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives Votes: 2

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here. Votes: 2

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. Votes: 2

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. Votes: 2

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things. Votes: 2

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come. Votes: 2

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. Votes: 2

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse. Votes: 2

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. Votes: 2

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power. Votes: 2

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. Votes: 2

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation. Votes: 2

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. Votes: 2

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides. Votes: 2

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Votes: 2

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. Votes: 2

How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience? Votes: 2

I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life. Votes: 2

We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility. Votes: 2

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. Votes: 2

The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and... installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world... Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime. Votes: 2

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change Votes: 2

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. Votes: 2

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper. Votes: 2

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Votes: 2

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. Votes: 2

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. Votes: 2

As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed. Votes: 2

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' Votes: 2

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life. Votes: 2

We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none. Votes: 2

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true. Votes: 2

Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question. Votes: 2

Power is the great aphrodisiac. Votes: 0

With great power comes great dissipation. Votes: 0

Gracious blessings, power for great deeds. Votes: 0

With great power comes great responsibilty. Votes: 0

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation Votes: 0

Power is the great enemy of freedom Votes: 0

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Votes: 0

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action Votes: 0

There is great power in goals and dreams. Votes: 0

The great mind knows the power of gentleness. Votes: 0

Great grace is the power of great thanks. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. Votes: 0

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. Votes: 0

Silence is a place of great power and healing. Votes: 0

The power to investigate is a great public trust. Votes: 0

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. Votes: 0

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power Votes: 0

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. Votes: 0

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. Votes: 0

He is truly great in who hath power over himself. Votes: 0

Love is the source of great power and great strength. Votes: 0

With Great power comes great need to take a nap Votes: 0

Love is a great power, and such a strange power... Votes: 0

I have been seized by the power of a great affection. Votes: 0

You are backed by great power. Press onwards, you will succeed. Votes: 0

Recognise and reach out to the inherent great power within you. Votes: 0

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. Votes: 0

It is within the power of every man to become great. Votes: 0

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person Votes: 0

You can do great and mighty things by the power of God. Votes: 0

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness. Votes: 0

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise. Votes: 0

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... Votes: 0

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men. Votes: 0

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy. Votes: 0

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly. Votes: 0

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. Votes: 0

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Votes: 0

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. Votes: 0

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Votes: 0

Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism. Votes: 0

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. Votes: 0

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. Votes: 0

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it. Votes: 0

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. Votes: 0

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep. Votes: 0

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. Votes: 0

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. Votes: 0

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power. Votes: 0

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. Votes: 0

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Votes: 0

The grace of endurance is the great power of God at work within us. Votes: 0

He's such a great threat because of his power and pace. (on Cristiano Ronaldo) Votes: 0

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. Votes: 0

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. Votes: 0

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization. Votes: 0

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. Votes: 0

May God gives you power to accomplish all the great things you were destiny for. Votes: 0

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile. Votes: 0

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained. Votes: 0

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. Votes: 0

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. Votes: 0

The spirit of God dwells in you. Recognize the great power and might of your divine-self. Votes: 0

I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great. Votes: 0

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. Votes: 0

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. Votes: 0

War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great Votes: 0

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression. Votes: 0

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. Votes: 0

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out. Votes: 0

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. Votes: 0

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power. Votes: 0

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. Votes: 0

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel. Votes: 0

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! Votes: 0

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others. Votes: 0

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. Votes: 0

If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps. Votes: 0

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible. Votes: 0

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely. Votes: 0

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. Votes: 0

We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand. Votes: 0

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees. Votes: 0

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. Votes: 0

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. Votes: 0

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. Votes: 0

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority. Votes: 0

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Votes: 0

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. Votes: 0

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. Votes: 0

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. Votes: 0

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Votes: 0

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. Votes: 0

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Votes: 0

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. Votes: 0

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. Votes: 0

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. Votes: 0

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?' Votes: 0

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. Votes: 0

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Votes: 0

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. Votes: 0

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power. Votes: 0

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones) Votes: 0

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. Votes: 0

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. Votes: 0

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. Votes: 0

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Votes: 0

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day. Votes: 0

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. Votes: 0

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom. Votes: 0

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Votes: 0

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. Votes: 0

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. Votes: 0

There is a wonderful power that comes when you know that someone will achieve something great due to your help. Votes: 0

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Votes: 0

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines. Votes: 0

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. Votes: 0

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation. Votes: 0

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. Votes: 0

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. Votes: 0

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled. Votes: 0

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. Votes: 0

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power. Votes: 0

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. Votes: 0

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. Votes: 0

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . . Votes: 0

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. Votes: 0

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) Votes: 0

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Votes: 0

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. Votes: 0

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. Votes: 0

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. Votes: 0

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. Votes: 0

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected. Votes: 0

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. Votes: 0

The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power. Votes: 0

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. Votes: 0

In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. Votes: 0

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. Votes: 0

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. Votes: 0

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. Votes: 0

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur. Votes: 0

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Votes: 0

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Votes: 0

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power. Votes: 0

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste. Votes: 0

Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act. Votes: 0

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. Votes: 0

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. Votes: 0

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. Votes: 0

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. Votes: 0

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted. Votes: 0

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Votes: 0

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. Votes: 0

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. Votes: 0

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Votes: 0

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it. Votes: 0

There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God. Votes: 0

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. Votes: 0

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD Votes: 0

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. Votes: 0

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. Votes: 0

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that. Votes: 0

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics. Votes: 0

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Votes: 0

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows. Votes: 0

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. Votes: 0

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. Votes: 0

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Votes: 0

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. Votes: 0

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. Votes: 0

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. Votes: 0

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself. Votes: 0

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. Votes: 0

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses. Votes: 0

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Votes: 0

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. Votes: 0

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. Votes: 0

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. Votes: 0

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere. Votes: 0

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power! Votes: 0

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great Votes: 0

I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me. Votes: 0

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating. Votes: 0

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. Votes: 0

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius Votes: 0

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully. Votes: 0

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more. Votes: 0

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. Votes: 0

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power. Votes: 0

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind. Votes: 0

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit. Votes: 0

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." Votes: 0

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good. Votes: 0

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. Votes: 0

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. Votes: 0

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation . Votes: 0

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. Votes: 0

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target. Votes: 0

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true Votes: 0

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different. Votes: 0

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard. Votes: 0

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. Votes: 0

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy. Votes: 0

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power, and I think it's legitimate, and I don't see that's a danger to us. Votes: 0

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. Votes: 0

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor. Votes: 0

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. Votes: 0

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad. Votes: 0

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them. Votes: 0

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. Votes: 0

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Votes: 0

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. Votes: 0

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise, Votes: 0

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others. Votes: 0

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. Votes: 0

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve. Votes: 0

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice. Votes: 0

It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for His love. Votes: 0

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality. Votes: 0

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. Votes: 0

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. Votes: 0

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship. Votes: 0

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance. Votes: 0

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. Votes: 0

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating. Votes: 0

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. Votes: 0

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. Votes: 0

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children, Votes: 0

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.' Votes: 0

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous. Votes: 0

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love. Votes: 0

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. Votes: 0

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. Votes: 0

I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power. Votes: 0

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. Votes: 0

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. Votes: 0

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. Votes: 0

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. Votes: 0

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. Votes: 0

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. Votes: 0

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. Votes: 0

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances. Votes: 0

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it. Votes: 0

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. Votes: 0

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world. Votes: 0

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant. Votes: 0

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune! Votes: 0

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. Votes: 0

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others. Votes: 0

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Votes: 0

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come. Votes: 0

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. Votes: 0

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire. Votes: 0

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. Votes: 0

To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger. Votes: 0

You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can...how do you moderns say it...think outside the cup. Votes: 0

We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed. Votes: 0

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not. Votes: 0

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity. Votes: 0

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. Votes: 0

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke. Votes: 0