Power Quotes

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

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

Jean Anouilh

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Horace Bushnell

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffe

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3

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

Aristotle

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

Victor Hugo

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

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

Andrew Brown

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

William Hazlitt

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

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

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Desire creates the power.

Raymond Holliwell

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

Samuel Johnson

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

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

Jimi Hendrix

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

What power has law where only money rules.

Gaius Petronius

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

George Washington

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

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway