Power Quotes

Harry sheare - if absolute power corrupts absolutely, does...
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Gahan wilson - when i was young, i used to think that wealth and...
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.
Peter Lynch
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
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
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
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
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Crossman
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Plato
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey
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
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
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
C. C. Colton
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 an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.
Nicolas Boileau
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Vauvenargues
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
Salvador De Madriaga
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
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
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
Joseph Stalin
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.
American Indian Prove
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - If he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
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
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero