Quotes about Power

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

One with the law is a majority.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.