Power Quotes

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
Honore de balzac - equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on...
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
Robert burns - o would some power the giftie gie us to see...
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Teale
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Sta
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Gahan Wilson
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
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
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
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
Joel E. Ross
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason".
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle, Physics
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.
Stephen Jay Gould
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".