Power Quotes

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

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

Albert Einstein

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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 best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

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

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

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Eric Amble

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Unknown

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.

Eric Hoffe

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylo

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Epictetus

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

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

Midge Decto

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin, on power and corruption

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Mille

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann von Goethe