Power Quotes

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Mia Hamm

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Doctor Who

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

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

Charles Gordon

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

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

William Proxmire

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

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

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 most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Roger Sta

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Unknown

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

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.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Elizabeth Janeway

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Erastus Flavel Beadle

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818

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

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne