Power Quotes

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

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

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.

Basil King

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.

Peter Lynch

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

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

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse Tung

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Richard Milhous Nixon

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

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

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jane Fonda

A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Euripides, 438 B. C.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Kahlil Gibran

The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Salvador De Madriaga

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield