Power Quotes
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.Meryl Streep
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
He who has great power should use it lightly.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long - Term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.Maurice Godelie
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
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.Katharine Graham
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.Carl Sandburg
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.Epictetus
The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U. S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
With great power comes great responsibility.Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
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]
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.Margaret Atwood
