Power Quotes

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Aristotle - those who have the command of the arms in a...
B. f. skinne - physics does not change the nature of the world...
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.
Spider - Man
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
William Fullbright
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
Phillips brooks - do not pray for easy lives. pray to be stronger...
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Prove
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.
Kahlil Gibran
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.
Nicolas Boileau
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Henri de Lubac
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuh
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long - Term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Maurice Godelie
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating