Power Quotes

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Saskya pandita - not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by...
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
William shakespeare,
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
Dennis Kucinich
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
Neville Chamberlain
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
Carol Botwin
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
James Harvey Robinson
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Plato
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
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
John P. Grie
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius