Power Quotes

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
H. g. wells - i see knowledge increasing and human power...
Michael pritchard - no matter how rich you become, how famous or...
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Nikita khrushchev - i want to talk to these people because they stay...
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
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
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
Epictetus
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
C. C. Colton
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
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
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius