Power Quotes
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
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
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.Mahatma Gandhi
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.Egyptian Book of the Dead
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.Paul Aubuchon
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.Saint Francis de Sales
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.Benjamin Franklin
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle, Physics
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
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.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
