Power Quotes

Lyndon b. johnson - we have the opportunity to move not only toward...
Friedrich nietzsche - on the mountains of truth you can never climb in...
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
Theodore harold white - whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys...
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.
Muammar Qaddafi
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Mark Twain
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
Neville Chamberlain
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
James Roy Smith
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.
W. T. Ussery
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
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
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Johann von Goethe
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
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
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse - Tung