Power Quotes

J. martin kohe - the greatest power that a person possesses is the...
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Honore de balzac - equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on...
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Booker t. washington - character is power....
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.
American Indian Prove
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
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
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Sibert Cathe
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
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
Never underestimate the power of passion.
Eve Sawye
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffe
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
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
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev