Power Quotes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Laertius Diogenes

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Caterina Rando

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Charles Gordon

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

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

Michael Faraday

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Six

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Colorose

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Johann von Goethe

Use power to curb power.

Chinese Prove

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

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

Agathon

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Bake

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

J. Martin Kohe

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein