Power Quotes

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
Nikita khrushchev - asking to meet with italian businessmen instead...
Homer simpson, the simpsons - never underestimate the power of stupid people in...
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
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
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
C. C. Colton
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.
Blessing Irish
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Benjamin franklin - to the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of...
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.
American Indian Prove
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann Hesse
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
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
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
Thucyclides
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
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
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
G. K. Chesterton
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
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
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
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
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Stephen Hawking
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