Power Quotes
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
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
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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
The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.Shirley MacLaine
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
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
Absolute power is the power to destroy.Frank Herbert, Dune
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Cardinal Newman
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.Johann von Goethe
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.Lincoln Steffens
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Johann von Goethe
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 three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.The Dhammapada
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.William Shakespeare
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Bertrand Russell
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore Harold White
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.William Wordsworth
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.Joel E. Ross
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
