Power Quotes

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Charles Gordon

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Lyman Bryson

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947

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

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

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

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Buddha

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.

Robert Burns, To A Louse

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Charles Horton Cooley

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason".

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

Sir William Drape

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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

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

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

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

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Earl Nightingale

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffe