Power Quotes
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.Abigail Adams
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.J. Edgar Hoove
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Six
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.William Hazlitt
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
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
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
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
