Power Quotes

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

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

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoove

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

J. Arthur Thomson

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

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

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 world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.

William Wordsworth

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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.

Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8

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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

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

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

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh