Power Quotes

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

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Doctor Who

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

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984

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

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

John Adams

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Eric Amble

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

William Hazlitt

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

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

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.

Peter Lynch

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

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".

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

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

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Epictetus

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

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

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.

Agathon