Power Quotes
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.George Orwell
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.Unknown
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.Albert Einstein
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?Harry Sheare
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.Peter Lynch
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.Tyron Edwards
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.Nicolas Boileau
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
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
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.Anthony Brandt
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.Johann von Goethe
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.Anais Nin
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.Mark Twain
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.Mark Twain
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
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)
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
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
