Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.
I've always put a lot of stock in aesthetics and visuals. I truly believe a picture is worth a thousand words and that fashion and glamour have the power to transport and transform someone.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Prayer is man's greatest power!
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?