Quotes About Power

Your urge to control life controls you.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.