Power Quotes

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Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
Hazrat ali ibn - e - abi talib, nahj - ul - balagha (sermons and sayings compilation) - if you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by...
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Teale
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
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffe
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
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
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
Carol Botwin
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Laertius Diogenes
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
Eric Hoffe
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
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Sta
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
Carl Sandburg
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
Thucyclides
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
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
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
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.
John Sloan Dickey
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown