Our Power Quotes
238 quotes by 192 authors
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that…
— George W. Bush
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
— Joshua Chamberlain
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a…
— Neville Chamberlain
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We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
— Christiane Amanpour
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Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe…
— Fred Alan Wolf
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We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices…
— Deborah Prothrow-Stith
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It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I…
— Rebecca Johnston
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love…
— Leo Buscaglia
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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
— Aristotle
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us…
— Richard J. Foster
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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything…
— Scott Lively
Who Wrote These Our Power Quotes
192 authors contributed a total of 238 Our Power Quotes, led by these top contributors: