Power Quotes
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
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
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.The Dhammapada
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
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 Aelius Aurelius
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.Saville
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.Ludwig Boerne
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.Paul Aubuchon
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.Katharine Graham
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
With great power comes great responsibility.Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
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
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
Either you think - - Or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.F Scott
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Jane Fonda
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.Joseph Stalin
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
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)
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Six
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle, Physics
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.Tryon Edwards
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?Harry Sheare
