Power Quotes
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
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 trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.Margaret Mead
The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.Michael Pritchard
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.Peter Lynch
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Customs are more powerful than laws.The Talmud
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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
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
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.Buddha
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
