Power Quotes

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
Anthony brandt - the most powerful ties are the ones to the people...
G. k. chesterton - if a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt...
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
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
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.
Nicolas Boileau
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Douglas Noel Adams
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth janeway - power is the ability not to have to please....
The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Crossman
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Henri de Lubac
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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
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
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
Phaedrus
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
John P. Grie
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
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
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
William Wordsworth