Power Strength Quotes

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure;

neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

When something bad happens you have three choices.

You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength.

.. It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

Never underestimate your own strength.

You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength.

I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Power, after all, is not just military strength.

It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need;

it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury.

It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed.

The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.