Power Quotes

Charles caleb colton - no man is wise enough, nor good enough to be...
Sir winston churchill - so they the government go on in strange paradox,...
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.
Caterina Rando
Seneca - the greatest loss of time is delay and...
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
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Doctor Who
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
William Fullbright
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Victor Hugo
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anger without power is folly.
German Prove
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Clement Stone
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George Herbert Walker Bush
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
Emily Taft Douglas
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt