Power Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

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)

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

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 sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.

Adam Smith

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

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

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

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

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.

David L Boren

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Midge Decto

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

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

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Doctor Who

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965