Power
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.