Power Quotes

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

James Roy Smith

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

Charles Caleb Colton

This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!

Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.

Phaedrus

The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.

John Whitehead

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

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.

American Indian Prove

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

Johann von Goethe

Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

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

Aristotle

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)

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

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

Liz Smith

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo