Power Quotes
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.Abigail Adams
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
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
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.Meryl Streep
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.American Indian Prove
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.Thomas Troward
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.Aesop
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.John Ruskin
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
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
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long - Term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.Maurice Godelie
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.John D. Rockefelle
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.Scarface
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.Ayn Rand
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
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
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.
