Top 100 Great Power Quotes
#1. We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God's faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.
David Jeremiah
#2. He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
Victor Hugo
#3. There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it
Mary E. Pearson
#4. The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner
#5. You have the soul of a corporation, a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took it as a compliment. Corporations have great power and do fine things in this world when they choose to.
Neal Shusterman
#6. But as we've said before, there is great power in all of us, if only we channel that power into action.
Thomas Wheeler
#7. There is great power in loving, consistent, fervent family prayer. Don't deny your families this blessing. Don't allow the strength that comes from family prayer to slip away from you and your loved ones through neglect.
John H. Groberg
#8. Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Dan Brown
#9. Our priestesses have always taught that divinity, by virtue of its great power, must encompass both beauty and terror.
Laini Taylor
#10. Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
Ronald Reagan
#11. The spirit of God dwells in you. Recognize the great power and might of your divine-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
#13. It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#14. To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
Joe Hyams
#15. Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge
#17. God doesn't want to overwhelm us with a lot of theology in order to receive our healing. He keeps it simple. Nonetheless, there is great power to be found in these simple and easily implemented truths. The first of them is to "draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).
Dutch Sheets
#18. There is great power in our words, because they
are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.
Molly Friedenfeld
#19. Nordlings. The men before men, creatures of great power and incredible cruelty.
Barbara Bartholomew
#21. If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.
Zhores Alferov
#22. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Your mind has great power;
tap into its brilliance.
Your heart has marvellous power;
tap into its excellence.
Your soul has divine power;
tap into its transcendence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
Lactantius
#25. God has given the great power to parents and teachers.They have a great power of creating and spoiling to a human being.They can make a child or they can spoil a child. Isn't right?
Kusum Manjeshri
#26. The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.
James E. Faust
#27. All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
Stephen Vizinczey
#28. Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.
Mike Bickle
#29. Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap.
Rick Riordan
#30. We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.
Peace Pilgrim
#31. Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
Vernon Howard
#32. Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#33. Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant ... In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
John Taylor Of Caroline
#34. In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.
Andrew Murray
#35. In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love - without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.
Ted Dekker
#36. The great power and malignity of Satan is seen in that among the most distressing cases were those who were not noted for great sins, but the young and comparative innocent ones were the victims of his dread power.
E. M. Bounds
#37. Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Juvenal
#38. Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
Roger McDonald
#39. The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.
Hilma Af Klint
#41. I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
Aimee Mullins
#42. I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
Josh Keaton
#43. I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task ...
James Woods
#44. So then, men may let their great powers lie dormant, while they employ their mean and petty powers on mean and petty objects; but it is physically impossible to employ a great power, except on a great object.
John Ruskin
#45. Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.
Will Self
#46. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
#47. There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.
S. Usher Evans
#48. In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.
John Mearsheimer
#49. The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the power.
Ted Dekker
#50. With great power ... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
Rick Riordan
#51. He was, after all, like other high officials. I wondered why I thought he would be different. These men, who depended on the President's favour for everything, were bundles of nerves. The great power they excercised went with a constant fear of being destroyed.
V.S. Naipaul
#52. The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
David Frum
#53. More love, more power.
Less love, less power.
Great love, great power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.
Mark Parker
#55. Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
A.J.P. Taylor
#56. A The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. [2]
Anonymous
#57. Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#58. Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
Bill Vaughan
#59. Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.
Kim Harrison
#60. You cannot be anything other than who you are. Trees don't stand around comparing heights. Flowers don't compare colours. There is a great power in total acceptance.
Stephen Shaw
#61. I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley
#62. With great power comes a great need to take a nap.
Rick Riordan
#63. We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?
James Vila Blake
#65. Social intercourse
a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power ...
Emily Blackwell
#66. I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years
or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
#67. The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
C.J. Sansom
#68. With great power often comes great confusion.
Dan Allen
#69. America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush
#70. The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
Robert H. Jackson
#71. Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change
Richard G. Scott
#74. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16 NLT
Dianne Neal Matthews
#75. We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to use our troops if our spades act up, so watch out, or we'll go fucking nuclear on your yellow asses if you try to cash in your chips.
Gary Shteyngart
#76. A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.
Leo Szilard
#77. For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
Ivan Krastev
#78. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#79. Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose. George
Philippa Gregory
#80. Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.
Walter Lippmann
#83. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#84. temples can wield great power, for they can motivate the masses to ignore self-preservation in the name of a holy cause. They have moral power, as well, ideally. But most are run by petty people with odd ideas about a civil society.
Terry Mancour
#85. I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.
Susan Faludi
#86. The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
William O. Douglas
#87. You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.
Bob Proctor
#88. In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
Adyashanti
#89. The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. Recognise the great power and potential that manifests itself through your thoughts and your words.
Miya Yamanouchi
#91. Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
Robert Toombs
#92. Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
Dada Bhagwan
#93. With great power ... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later
Rick Riordan
#94. Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
Martti Ahtisaari
#95. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility."
"Are you screwin' with me, man?" Taylor asked bluntly.
David Estes
#96. How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience?
Gary Zukav
#97. Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.
Susan Cain
#98. Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
Matthew Arnold
#99. Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light,
Kim Harrison
#100. In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
Edward Bernays
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