Power Quotes

Vaclav havel - hope is a state of mind, not of the world. hope,...
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Malcolm x - power in defense of freedom is greater than power...
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
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
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Douglas Noel Adams
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.
Eugene H. Spafford
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
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.
Unknown
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Cornelius Tacitus
I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoove
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.
Ronnie Shakes
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
Paul Aubuchon
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
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