Power Quotes

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leonardo da vinci - patience serves as a protection against wrongs as...
Edward bulwer - lytton - what a mistake to suppose that the passions are...
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld
Marion wink, o magazine, 2003 - you can make those promises with just as much...
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
With great power comes great responsibility.
Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
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
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
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
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
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Poppe
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
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
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.
John Sloan Dickey
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
Man has responsibility, not power.
Tuscarora prove
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams