Power Quotes

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Unknown

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Pittacus

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Never underestimate the power of passion.

Eve Sawye

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin