Power Quotes
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
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
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
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 an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.Thomas Troward
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
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.Edwin Teale
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.John P. Grie
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.William Fullbright
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.Muammar Qaddafi
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.Benjamin Franklin
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - If he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.John Stuart Mill
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
