One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.
Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.
Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. . . . For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.
The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.
Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.
There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.
We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.