Power Quotes

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatche
Johann wolfgang von goethe - beware of dissipating your powers; strive...
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
Oliver wendell holmes jr., (dissent, abrams v. united states, 1919) - the ultimate good desired is better reached by...
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
Carol Botwin
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.
Muammar Qaddafi
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
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
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
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Scarface
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Mille
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
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warne
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
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
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.
Peter Lynch
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree