Power Quotes
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
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.Salvador De Madriaga
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.William Shakespeare
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.John Ruskin
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.Anais Nin
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.Henrik Ibsen
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.Stephen Covey
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
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
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Robert Frost
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.Shirley MacLaine
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.Jon Wynne Tyson
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.Nelson Rockefelle
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.Peter Lynch
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.Henry George
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
