Power Quotes
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"Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions."
Quote by -Robert Greene
"Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion"
Quote by -Robert Greene
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
“Power. The word fixed in my mother’s mind like a curse. In America, it had generally remained hidden from view until you dug beneath the surface of things; until you visited an Indian reservation or spoke to a black person whose trust you had earned. But here power was undisguised, indiscriminate, naked, always fresh in the memory.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“Yesterday natural resources were power, today knowledge is power. Yesterday hierarchy was the model, today synergy is the model. Yesterday leaders commanded control, today leaders empower and coach.”
Quote by -A.P.J Abdul Kalam
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Quote by -Voltaire
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Quote by -Voltaire
The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?
Quote by -Henrik Ibsen
People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
Quote by -Jason Statham
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny, because the power of a just cause is based on conviction, and leads to resolute and uncompromising action.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
Quote by -John Milton
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
Quote by -Robert Browning
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun and fully release electromagnetic and atomic power.
Quote by -Thomas A Edison
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
Quote by -B. H. Liddell Hart
People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence
Quote by -Doris Lessing
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I'd ask my brother what to do, and he'd tell me to wear my dressing gown. I'd tell him I can't - it's too horrible. He'd tell me to wear his as well. So I'd meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. You can accept that you are afraid and then move on.
Quote by -Les Brown
"Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind,deliberately voice a positive one to cancel it out."
Quote by -Norman Vincent Peale
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."
Quote by -Orison Swett Marden
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
Quote by -Baltasar Gracián
"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ"
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"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 F Kennedy
"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"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 F Kennedy
"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
Quote by -Sophocles
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Quote by -Stephen R. Covey
"Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose"
Quote by -Stephen R. Covey
"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld