Power Quotes
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Samuel Smiles
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore Harold White
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.Thomas Troward
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse Tung
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
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
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.Hermann Hesse
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle, Physics
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.William Hazlitt
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.Kahlil Gibran
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.Joseph Farrell
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.Joseph Stalin
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.Origen
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
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.Scarface
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
