Power Quotes

A. bartlett giamatti, president of yale university - far better to think historically, to remember the...
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.
Blessing Irish
Euripides - i have found power in the mysteries of thought,...
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
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
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
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Poppe
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
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
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Bake
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides, 438 B. C.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plome
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
Epictetus
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
Theodor Herzl
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".
Customs are more powerful than laws.
The Talmud
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
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