Power Quotes

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

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

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

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Samuel Johnson

My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Susan Johnson

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Aristotle

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

John P. Grie

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

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

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 Newman

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.

Robert Burns, To A Louse

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

J. Martin Kohe

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Colorose

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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 a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04