Power Quotes

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Spider - Man

Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.

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

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.

Theodor Herzl

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams, Journal, 1772

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Mia Hamm

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

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

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.

Paul Aubuchon

Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

David McCord

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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

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

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Louis

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Proverbs 3: 27

The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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