Power Quotes
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.Giuseppe Mazzini
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
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
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel de Cervantes
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
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.John P. Grie
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
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
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.Virginia Woolf
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
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
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
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Michael Bakunin, God and State
Power is the ability not to have to please.Elizabeth Janeway
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
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 any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.Johann von Goethe
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.Richard M. DeVos
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.J. Martin Kohe
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.David Brin, on power and corruption
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Douglas Noel Adams
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
