Power Quotes
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.Rachel Carson
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long - Term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.Maurice Godelie
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.Sallust
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.Randall Wallace
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.John D. Rockefelle
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Jane Fonda
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Douglas Noel Adams
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
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.Johann von Goethe
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Michael Bakunin, God and State
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.Tyron Edwards
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
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte