Power Quotes

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
Plutarch - to make no mistakes is not in the power of man;...
Sir winston churchill, hansard, november 12, 1936 - so they the government go on in strange paradox,...
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
Sidney Madwed
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
William wordsworth, the world is too much with us - the world is too much with us; late and soon,...
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
James Roy Smith
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
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
Harold Taylo
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
John P. Grie
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin, on power and corruption
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.
Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue
Use power to curb power.
Chinese Prove
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
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
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White