Power Quotes
What power has law where only money rules.Gaius Petronius
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.David McCord
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.Ninon de Lenclos
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?Ronnie Shakes
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.Brenda Ueland
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.Harold Taylo
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
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
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
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.Honore de Balzac
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
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
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.Benjamin Franklin
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
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
