Power Quotes

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 H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

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

Mary Howitt

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Willa Sibert Cathe

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton, 1887

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stephen Covey

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

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Epictetus

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

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

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

David McCord

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

Either you think - - Or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F Scott

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Susan Johnson