Power Quotes

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

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.

Adam Smith

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Eric Amble

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Victor Hugo

History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.

Unknown

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Six

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

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

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

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

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

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.

Phaedrus

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

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.

Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Angel Blessing

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Lord Acton

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

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.

Eugene H. Spafford

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.

Agathon

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus