Power Quotes

Robert henri - why do we love the sea it is because it has some...
Ayn rand - every man builds his world in his own image. he...
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
Thucyclides
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Prove
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
Epictetus
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
Johannes Meister Eckhart
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.
Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U. S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.
Peter Lynch
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.
Herbert Clark Hoove
It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
Phaedrus
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
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
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
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 Cardinal Newman
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Dr. Robert Schulle
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s 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, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
Paul Weyrich
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.
Stephen Jay Gould
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plome
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt