Power
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Cash — in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits — is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.
A king without power is an absurdity.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power.
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then — and this is the best part — we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
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