Power Quotes

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Joseph stalin - i believe in one thing only, the power of the...
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Erastus Flavel Beadle
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
John whitehead - the people of the south have rejected the...
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
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
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
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
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
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Paul aubuchon - every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt...
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
Sarah Bernhardt
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatche
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warne
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuh
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann Hesse
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.
W. T. Ussery
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.