Power Quotes
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.Eric Hoffe
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.Katharine Graham
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.Colin Wilson
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
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.W. T. Ussery
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
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
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.Anon.
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.Anais Nin
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.Jon Wynne Tyson
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.Stephen Covey
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
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
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
