Power Quotes

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

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

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

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

George Orwell

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.

Germaine Gree

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylo

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

Heini Arnold

Anger without power is folly.

German Prove

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 most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

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

Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.

Joel E. Ross

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thucyclides