Power Quotes

Madeleine k. albright, farewell remarks at u. s. department of state; january 19, 2001; washington, dc - i have been called the most powerful woman in the...
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
John P. Grie
Frank herbert, chapterhouse dune, missionaria protectiva - all governments suffer a recurring problem: power...
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Absolute power is the power to destroy.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
Thucyclides
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
Margaret Mead
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.
Eric Amble
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Thomas Troward
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
Rachel Carson
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
Sarah Bernhardt
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.
Muammar Qaddafi
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.
Caterina Rando
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Anger without power is folly.
German Prove