Our Power Quotes
238 Our Power quotes by 187 unique authors
-
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
— C.S. Lewis
-
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
-
To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of…
— Nassau William Senior
-
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with…
— David Korten
-
If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or…
— Arianna Huffington
-
Our relationship to money reflects how we feel about our power to affect the world. Since money is a mirror of our consciousness, the more…
— Shakti Gawain
-
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
— Barack Obama
-
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
— Erwin McManus
-
Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away,…
— Sonia Choquette
-
Whenever you feel threatened or afraid, you should place your hands over your third chakra, right in the middle of your stomach, and breathe very…
— Sonia Choquette
-
In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for…
— Debbie Ford
-
Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.
— Debbie Ford
-
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
-
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that…
— Muriel Rukeyser
-
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
— Samuel Johnson
-
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass…
— Pliny the Elder
-
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
— Nelson Mandela
-
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these…
— John Trudell
-
We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As…
— Stephen Covey
-
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.
— Paulo Coelho
-
With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances,…
— Marianne Williamson
-
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it.…
— Pete Seeger
-
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
— Sakyong Mipham
-
A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it…
— Soren Kierkegaard
-
The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to…
— Nelson Mandela
Who Wrote These Our Power Quotes
187 authors contributed a total of 238 Our Power Quotes, led by these top contributors: