Power Quotes
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.Victoria Billings
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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 Aelius Aurelius
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.Carl Jung
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.Eric Hoffe
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
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
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.Germaine Gree
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.Albert Einstein
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.Hannah Arendt
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.David Brinkley
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
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
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.Shirley MacLaine
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.Theodore Roosevelt
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
Consciousness of our powers augments them.Vauvenargues
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
