Power Quotes

Johann von goethe - whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it....
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George
Aldous huxley - idealism is the noble toga that political...
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
Paul Aubuchon
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
James Roy Smith
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
Carl Sandburg
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth - Grade math, you can do it.
Peter Lynch
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.
William Carlos Williams
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
Carol Botwin
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
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
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Bake
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
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
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
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
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Smiley Blanton
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley