Power Quotes
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
Power is the great aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
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
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.Egyptian Book of the Dead
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.Joseph Stalin
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.Charles Horton Cooley
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.Albert Einstein
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.W. T. Ussery
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.Margaret Mead
The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
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
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 are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.Angel Blessing
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
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.J. Martin Kohe
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
