Power Quotes
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.Nadine Gordime
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.Tyron Edwards
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.Victoria Billings
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.Liz Smith
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.Aesop
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.Colin Wilson
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Use power to curb power.Chinese Prove
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.Spider - Man
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel de Cervantes
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
