Power Quotes
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U. S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.David Brinkley
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.Doctor Who
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
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
All human power is a compound of time and patience.Honore de Balzac
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
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
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.Mary Wollstonecraft
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
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
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.Unknown
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.Friedrich Nietzche
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Johann von Goethe
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
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 power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm