Power Quotes

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle, Physics
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Louis
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003
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
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.
Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi