Power Quotes

Charles de gaulle - silence is the ultimate weapon of power....
Faith popcorn, the popcorn report, 1991 - the trouble in corporate america is that too many...
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
A. J. Toynbee
John stuart mill - if mankind minus one were of one opinion, then...
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
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
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984
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
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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
I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.
David McCord
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton