Power Quotes
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.Thomas Paine
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.Margaret Thatche
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, 1887
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.J. Edgar Hoove
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.Egyptian Book of the Dead
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Newman
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
All human power is a compound of time and patience.Honore de Balzac
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.Eric Hoffe
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.Tryon Edwards
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.Shirley MacLaine
