Power Quotes

Marya mannes - it is not enough to show people how to live...
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
Eric hoffe - our credulity is greatest concerning the things...
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Johann von Goethe
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Mary Bertone
Use power to curb power.
Chinese Prove
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
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
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin, on power and corruption
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
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffe
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Laertius Diogenes
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Teale
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
Susan Johnson
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
Dennis Kucinich
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
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 life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz