Power Quotes

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Blessing irish - lust of power burns more fiercely than all the...
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
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
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
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
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.
Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U. S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S Truman
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
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
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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
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
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987
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
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Sta
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
Thomas Bailey
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
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
Emily Taft Douglas
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