When leaders take back power when they act as heroes and saviors they end up exhausted overwhelmed and deeply stressed.
Also as I lay there thinking of my vision I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning it would be like fog and get away from me.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
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.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
It is said that power corrupts but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Kind words are a creative force a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
As you enter positions of trust and power dream a little before you think.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
Power doesn't corrupt people people corrupt power.
And the biggest coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
I serve a higher power Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
I think every individual has his or her own power and it's a matter of working taking time and defining what that power is.
Well when I was younger I lied all the time because once you understand the power of lying it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
Courage means to keep working a relationship to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems and to stay focused during stressful periods.