Power Quotes

Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

Alexander Hamilton

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

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.

Paul Aubuchon

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akhenaton

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Scarface

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Colin Wilson

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Johann von Goethe

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin, on power and corruption

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

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Juvenal

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

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

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Origen

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

Horace Bushnell