Power Quotes

Ninon de lenclos - the joy of a spirit is the measure of its power....
Steve droke - knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the...
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
Friedrich nietzsche - on the mountains of truth you can never climb in...
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.
Alexander Hamilton
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
William Wordsworth
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
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
Tyron Edwards
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Customs are more powerful than laws.
The Talmud
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
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
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
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffe
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann Hesse
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
William Wordsworth
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides, 438 B. C.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus