Power Within Quotes

#1. 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 the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

Aristotle.

#2. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

William S. Paley

#4. As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#6. within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.

N. T. Wright

#7. When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.

Seneca.

#8. The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

F. W. De Klerk

#9. Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Mark Hart

#10. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.

Adrian Phoenix

#11. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii

Val McDermid

#12. How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Lorraine Toussaint

#13. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

George Henry Lewes

#14. Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

Douglas Harding

#15. Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#16. American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

Neil Kinnock

#17. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.

Merle Hoffman

#19. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Eric Liddell

#20. The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Wallace D. Wattles

#21. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Anne Fortier

#22. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

#23. Life is a miracle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. 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. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

#25. Seek to know the power that is within you.

Joseph Campbell

#26. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.

Mia Asher

#27. Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you did with your brother. You have such strength, such courage, such power within you.

Moira Young

#28. There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.

Michael Josephson

#29. If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Sivananda

#30. Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#31. As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#32. The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#33. Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

Frederick Lenz

#34. 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 little or much. Every person can do that.

Soren Kierkegaard

#35. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

Thomas Aquinas

#38. There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.

Lord Buckley

#39. When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

Laozi

#40. We forget that the power of God isn't in a weapon or a leader, but within us.

Toni Sorenson

#41. Within the brain's most secret cells,
A certain lord chief justice dwells,
Of sov'reign power, whom one and all,
With common voice we reason call.

Charles Churchill

#42. There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.

Marianne Williamson

#43. It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#44. Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#45. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world ...

Audre Lorde

#46. Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

Phyllis McGinley

#47. The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

Genevieve Behrend

#48. If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them.

J.K. Rowling

#49. The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Booker T. Washington

#50. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Rob Bell

#51. Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#52. ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

From the poem 'The Unseen World

Munia Khan

#53. Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

Lorraine Heath

#54. The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

David Perry

#55. The equilibrium of power between God and Human is getting so close; God has built the planet in 6 days and today we can destroy it within half a day.

M.F. Moonzajer

#56. I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.

Danny Danon

#57. I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal.

Walter Russell

#58. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

#59. A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. - Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian

Rowling J K

#60. Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

Frederick Lenz

#61. The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

Shakti Gawain

#62. There is power in nature,' Ilgast replied, 'and what is often forgotten is that nature lies within us as much as it does out there, amidst high grasses or shoreline. To heal is to draw across the divide; that and nothing more.

Steven Erikson

#63. Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#64. 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.

Wilma Rudolph

#65. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#66. You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation ... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

#67. You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have

Max Lucado

#68. Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

Bryant McGill

#69. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

John Berger

#70. The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Caroline Myss

#71. Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.

Emily Thorne

#72. What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

Epictetus

#73. It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.

Renee Marino

#74. To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Sissela Bok

#75. Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.

James Bryan Smith

#76. Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

Michel Foucault

#77. Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Seneca.

#78. Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

Deepak Chopra

#79. I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

Jim Gaffigan

#80. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente

#81. The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you.

Pooja Ruprell

#82. Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Robin S. Sharma

#83. There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.

John Altman

#84. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Walter Scott

#85. In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#86. Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.

T.F. Hodge

#87. I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Vincent Van Gogh

#88. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#89. The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome.

Dillon Burroughs

#90. Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

Steve Maraboli

#91. It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Seneca The Younger

#92. You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

Georgette Mosbacher

#93. Beneath mounting waves of fear, I discover faith. In the midst of madness, I discover a new meaning to my life. I learn that the strength I had long sought in others had always resided in me. Despite despair, I discover the power within to transform my life.

Gayathri Ramprasad

#94. You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.

Wallace D. Wattles

#95. Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.

Mikhail Bakunin

#96. All power is within YOU. You are the creator of your experience.

Vivian Amis

#97. The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist
a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

Ed Parker

#98. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Marianne Williamson

#99. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav

#100. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

Edward Everett Hale