Power Quotes
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Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Quote by - Bible)
I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. (Quote by - Vanessa Redgrave)
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. (Quote by - Noah Webster)
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. (Quote by - Aristotle)
There is no knowledge that is not power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. (Quote by - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more? (Quote by - Chris Rock)
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? (Quote by - George Daacon)
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr)
Power never takes a back step (Quote by - only in the face of more power. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication. (Quote by - Theodore White)
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Power is the recognition of necessity. (Quote by - Abraham Rotstein)
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. (Quote by - Hans J. Morgenthau)
Knowledge is power. (Quote by - Francis Bacon, Sr.)
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished. (Quote by - Alfred Thayer Mahan)
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! (Quote by - Barry Cornwall)
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
He who despises his own life is soon master of another's. (Quote by - English proverb)
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Power ought to serve as a check to power. (Quote by - John Milton)
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
A partnership with men in power is never safe (Quote by - Phaedrus)
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic. (Quote by - R. H. S. Crossman)
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. (Quote by - Epictetus)
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. (Quote by - Bible)
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. (Quote by - Benazir Bhutto)
Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)
Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. (Quote by - Publius Ovidius Naso)
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. (Quote by - Edwin Land)
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the tooth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. (Quote by - Sylovester Stallone)
He hath no power that hath not power to use. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.] (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Quote by - Leo F. Buscaglia)
Iron hand in a velvet glove. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. (Quote by - Plutarch)
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence (Quote by - James Monroe)
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? (Quote by - John Dryden)
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any (Quote by - Alice Walker)
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 pleasure imaginary. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. (Quote by - Lyndon Johnson)
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?] (Quote by - Eric Johnston)
O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with the gods? (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. (Quote by - Max Lerner)
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. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible. (Quote by - George Samuel Clason)
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business (Quote by - Pierre Omidyar)
Our appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time (Quote by - Catherine Bell)
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't (Quote by - Oskar Shindler)
More than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable. I'm sure she has a way to negate power still. [on the return of Martina Hingis] (Quote by - Lindsay Davenport)
Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower. (Quote by - Raymond Blanc)
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. (Quote by - Charles Manson)
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.. (Quote by - Mao Tse-tung)
Patience and Gentleness is Power. (Quote by - James Henry Leigh Hunt)
Darren Campbell, a muscular, powerful young man inside him, who's pushing for Athens. And the starter's enjoying giving both of them a long hold. (Quote by - Stuart Storey)
This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense good will extended by other nations. (Quote by - Senator Edward M Kennedy)
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times - it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. (Quote by - Kate Chopin)
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Power only tires those who don't exercise it. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Power is neither male nor female. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch. (Quote by - Bob Gibson)
Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. (Quote by - John Milton)
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. (Quote by - James Madison)
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another. (Quote by - Konrad Heiden)
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Quote by - Aung San Suu Kyi)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (Quote by - George Orwell)
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
He is most powerful who has power over himself (Quote by - Seneca)
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Power has no limits. (Quote by - Tiberius Caesar)
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. (Quote by - Sir William Jones)
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. (Quote by - Tiberius Caesar)
