Power Quotes

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

John Sloan Dickey

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

G. K. Chesterton

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

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

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

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Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

La Rochefoucauld

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Cornelius Tacitus

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

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

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid