Power Quotes
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.Unknown
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.Thomas Troward
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.William Wordsworth
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
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
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora prove
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.Reinhold Niebuh
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse Tung
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.Mark Twain
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.Thomas Hobbes
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
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
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
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]
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.Stephen Covey
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.Phillips Brooks
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.Anthony Brandt
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.Saint Francis de Sales
