Power Quotes

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Epictetus

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Juvenal

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

James Russell Lowell

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

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 does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey

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

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Jon Wynne Tyson

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Euripides, 438 B. C.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erich Fromm

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

A. J. Toynbee

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

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

Margaret Thatche

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Teale

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams