Power Quotes

President harry truman, public papers of the president of the united states: harry s. truman - 1951 u. s. gov. 1966 pp548 - 549 - our religious faith gives us the answer to the...
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Mary Bertone
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
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
Theodor herzl - the body is a marvelous machine... a chemical...
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
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
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".
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
Phillips brooks - do not pray for easy lives. pray to be stronger...
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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
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
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
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
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
Margaret Mead
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003
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
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse Tung
Use power to curb power.
Chinese Prove
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?
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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid