Power Quotes

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle, Physics
Jon wynne tyson - the wrong sort of people are always in power...
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
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
Egyptian book of the dead - my utterance is mighty, i am more powerful than...
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley MacLaine
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
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
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Samuel Johnson
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.
Eric Amble
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson