Power Quotes

Mary bertone - the abuse of greatness is when it disjoins...
Laurence j. pete - real, constructive mental power lies in the...
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
J. martin kohe - the greatest power that a person possesses is the...
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
William Hazlitt
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
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
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S Truman
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - If he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffe
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Never underestimate the power of passion.
Eve Sawye
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
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
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Poppe
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
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
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
S? ren Kierkegaard
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
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
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
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 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
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy