Greater Power Quotes

• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Artist, Power

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• My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Son, Profound, Ineptitude

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Discipline, Curiosity

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, Creative, Mind

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.

  Libba Bray

  Stories, Earth, Storytelling

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• The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Birthday, Educational, Positivity

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony", Book by Ida Husted Harper, Volume 2, 1898.

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• Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

  Ilchi Lee

  Blessing, Hopeful, Mind

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jul 06, 2015

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• The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Exercise, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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• Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

  Caroline Myss

  Love, Choices, Firsts

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.17, Harmony

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• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Gratitude, Men, Ties

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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• The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

  Laurie R. King

  Hands, Flesh, Pages

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• Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sweaters, Brain, Busy

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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 greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Our World, Years

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spirit, Fight Club Book, Destroying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

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• It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?

  George Q. Cannon

  Heart, Giving, Envy

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• The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Power, Accomplishment, Purpose

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• ...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

  Irving Stone

  Light, Heat, Fierce

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Guilty, Cursing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intuition, Mind, Twenties

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Light, Flames

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• The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Temptation, Deception, Path

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• So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

  David Bohm

  Technology, Race, Wonder

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.1, Routledge

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