Power Quotes

Johann von goethe - dream no small dreams for they have no power to...
Mary howitt - he is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom...
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
William Wordsworth
Charles horton cooley - we are born to action and whatever is capable of...
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
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
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatche
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
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
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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
With great power comes great responsibility.
Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Jung
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
Joel E. Ross
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse - Tung
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe