Power Quotes
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
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
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
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.Unknown
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
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
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.Henry George
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.Honore de Balzac
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.Albert Einstein
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.Benjamin Franklin
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
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
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
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
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.Christine Lane
