Power Quotes
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
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, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
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
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.David Brinkley
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
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Michael Bakunin, God and State
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
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.James Russell Lowell
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
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
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.Sallust
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.Henrik Ibsen
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.Joseph Stalin
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.Dr. Robert Schulle
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
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.Joseph Farrell
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.Euripides, 438 B. C.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.Margaret Mead
