Power Quotes
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
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 any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse Tung
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Bertrand Russell
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Absolute power is the power to destroy.Frank Herbert, Dune
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 greatest power is often simple patience.E. Joseph Crossman
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.Mary Bertone
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.Salvador De Madriaga
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.Benjamin Franklin
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
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.Nadine Gordime
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.Jean Anouilh
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.Akhenaton
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
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
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.Orison Swett Marden
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
