Power Quotes

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.
Caterina Rando
Russell bake - ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer...
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
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
Jacques derrida, quoted in new york times, january 23, 1994 - but psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a...
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Swami Vivekananda
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
Anger without power is folly.
German Prove
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury
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
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
Emily Taft Douglas
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Vauvenargues
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Sibert Cathe
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
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
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
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
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
Neville Chamberlain
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
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Cornelius Tacitus
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville