Power Quotes
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.James Roy Smith
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.Origen
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel de Cervantes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.Unknown
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
Power is the ability not to have to please.Elizabeth Janeway
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.John Ruskin
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.Ayn Rand
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
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
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.Marcus Aurelius
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.Michael Pritchard
