Power Quotes
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
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.Liz Smith
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Consciousness of our powers augments them.Vauvenargues
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
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
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Drape
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
Knowledge is power.Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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
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
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.Origen
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
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
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
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.Tryon Edwards
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Robert Frost
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.Dennis Kucinich
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
He who has great power should use it lightly.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
