Power Quotes

Benjamin franklin - who is wise he that learns from everyone. who is...
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.
Ronnie Shakes
Rudyard kipling - words are, of course, the most powerful drug used...
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Swami Vivekananda
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
Dennis Kucinich
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, 1887
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
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
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatche
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Lyman Bryson
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 H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Johann von Goethe
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
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warne
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
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Nadia Boulange
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great