Power Quotes
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.Mark Twain
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.Doctor Who
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.Nicolas Boileau
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
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
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 any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.Aesop
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.Nadine Gordime
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.Shirley MacLaine
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.David Brin, on power and corruption
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Ovid
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
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
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.William Wordsworth
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
