Power Quotes

Norman vincent peale - believe in yourself! have faith in your...
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse - Tung
H. l. mencken - no man of genuinely superior intelligence has...
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Swami Vivekananda
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
Thucyclides
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.
Heini Arnold
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason".
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Lyman Bryson
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Upham