You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. 18 more quotes from Emile M. Cioran
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. 42 sayings from Josh Billings
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. 9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
Character is power. 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 10 more sayings from Booker T. Washington
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. 13 more views from John Muir
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. 14 other quotes from Edward Gibbon
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. 14 sayings from Vladimir Lenin
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. 27 views from Leonardo da Vinci
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. 8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. 2 more quotes from Oskar Schindler
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. 14 thoughts from Clarence Darrow
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. 9 thoughts from Robert Collier
Power is not alluring to pure minds. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. 7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. 16 views from David Hume
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. 38 other quotes from William Hazlitt
The law always limits every power it gives. 16 wisdom & wit from David Hume
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. 38 more thoughts from William Hazlitt
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 3 sayings from Mary Pickford
The power of imagination makes us infinite. 13 other quotes from John Muir
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. 4 views from Charles Evans Hughes
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. 14 views from Edward Gibbon
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. 45 more sayings from Bertrand Russell
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. 46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. 11 thoughts from Horace Mann
Every crisis offers you extra desired power. 3 quotes from William Moulton Marston
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. 4 sayings from Robert Hall
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. 45 views from Bertrand Russell
Nothing external to you has any power over you. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Power and speed be hands and feet. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power in America today is control of the means of communication. 5 wisdom & wit from Theodore White
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. 21 views from Malcolm X
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. 2 wisdom & wit from Richard J. Daley
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. 21 other wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. 6 more views from Catherine the Great
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. 6 quotes from Benjamin Spock
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. 11 quotes from John Stuart Mill
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. 11 quotes from John Stuart Mill
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. 10 sayings from Wilson Mizner
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. 24 thoughts from James A. Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. 53 quotes from 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. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. 11 views from Norman Vincent Peale
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. 2 quotes from William Pitt
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. 2 more wisdom & wit from William Pitt
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. 57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. 57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. 15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. 8 other quotes from Stokely Carmichael
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 47 views from George Orwell
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. 5 wisdom & wit from Brigham Young
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. 15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. 6 quotes from Charles Kingsley
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. 47 quotes from George Orwell
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. 15 more quotes from Pierre Corneille
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. 47 more views from George Orwell
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. 26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. 18 other quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. 3 other views from George A. Smith
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. 11 wisdom & wit from David Ogilvy
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. 14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. 8 sayings from Benito Mussolini
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. 8 other thoughts from Benito Mussolini
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. 45 views from Aldous Huxley
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. 12 views from Julius Caesar
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. 14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. 31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. 2 quotes from Nelson Rockefeller
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. 7 other sayings from John Quincy Adams
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. 13 other views from Dag Hammarskjold
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. 31 other sayings from Eric Hoffer
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. 2 sayings from Thurgood Marshall
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. 31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. 19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. 3 sayings from Jerry Rubin
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. 19 thoughts from E. B. White
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. 115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. 19 quotes from Carl Jung
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. 12 other views from Bernard Baruch
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. 22 more views from Samuel Richardson
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. 15 wisdom & wit from Walter Scott
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. 3 more quotes from Theodore Dreiser
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. 9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! 22 other thoughts from Samuel Richardson
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. 3 other quotes from Maggie Kuhn
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. 2 more quotes from C. Wright Mills
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. 5 quotes from Davy Crockett
But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power. 2 thoughts from Joshua Chamberlain
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. 63 other sayings from Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. 63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. 2 views from Vinoba Bhave
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? 13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. 5 other sayings from Robert Staughton Lynd
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! 3 quotes from David O. McKay
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. 63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. 21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Order is power. 24 views from Henri Frederic Amiel
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. 63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. 26 other wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. 21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. 2 other wisdom & wit from Agnes de Mille
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. 4 more thoughts from Henry George
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. 5 more quotes from Cesare Pavese
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. 30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
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. 13 quotes from Jean Rostand
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. 18 other sayings from John Adams
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. 18 quotes from John Adams
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. 28 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. 18 quotes from John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. 18 more wisdom & wit from John Adams
Power without abuse loses its charm. 16 quotes from Paul Valery
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. 6 quotes from Georg Buchner
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. 15 thoughts from William Penn
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 11 sayings from Bruce Lee
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! 10 quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. 11 more quotes from Bruce Lee
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. 52 quotes from Albert Camus
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. 18 more quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. 5 sayings from Abigail Adams
Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 3 more quotes from John Ray
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. 5 thoughts from Abigail Adams
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. 78 other thoughts from Voltaire
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. 10 other wisdom & wit from Billy Sunday
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. 13 other thoughts from Andrew Carnegie
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. 14 thoughts from Laurence Sterne
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. 2 other views from Eric Sevareid
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. 29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. 19 thoughts from Jonathan Swift
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. 29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. 19 wisdom & wit from Charles de Gaulle
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. 74 other wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. 5 views from Indira Gandhi
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. 11 quotes from Aneurin Bevan
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. 6 more views from Felix Frankfurter
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 52 more quotes from George Eliot
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. 19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. 78 more quotes from Voltaire
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 22 other thoughts from Jimi Hendrix
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. 25 more quotes from C. S. Lewis
Words, without power, is mere philosophy. 14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. 14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. 18 other thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. 25 other thoughts from C. S. Lewis
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. 5 sayings from Black Elk
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. 7 sayings from William E. Gladstone
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. 11 views from Manuel Puig
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' 68 quotes from Samuel Butler
To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. 12 more quotes from George MacDonald
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. 7 quotes from Phillips Brooks
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. 3 quotes from Charles Babbage
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. 46 quotes from George Santayana
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. 7 more views from Phillips Brooks
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. 14 other wisdom & wit from Jim Morrison
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. 5 other views from George Whitefield
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. 7 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Smiles
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. 11 other views from Joseph Stalin
I cured with the power that came through me. 5 other sayings from Black Elk
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. 3 thoughts from Charles Simmons
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 12 more thoughts from Mao Zedong
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. 75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. 75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. 11 other quotes from Joseph Stalin
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. 16 quotes from Alan Watts
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. 11 quotes from Epicurus
Knowledge is power. 67 views from Francis Bacon
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. 10 quotes from Edward Abbey
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. 37 wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. 75 thoughts from Aristotle
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. 17 other thoughts from Friedrich Durrenmatt
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. 12 sayings from Daniel Webster
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. 45 sayings from Thomas Fuller
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. 41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. 17 views from Plutarch
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. 14 more sayings from Stendhal
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. 75 other quotes from Aristotle
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. 13 other views from Alexander Hamilton
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. 13 other thoughts from Alexander Hamilton
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. 6 quotes from Jacob Bronowski
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. 40 more sayings from William James
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. 75 quotes from Aristotle
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. 25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Power is paradoxical. 17 other thoughts from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Power ought to serve as a check to power. 10 quotes from Charles de Secondat
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. 13 views from Alexander Hamilton
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. 14 more quotes from Stendhal
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. 12 more quotes from Daniel Webster
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. 75 more quotes from Aristotle
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. 14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. 75 wisdom & wit from Aristotle
Words derive their power from the original word. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. 30 sayings from Virginia Woolf
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 3 quotes from Everett Dirksen
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. 19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. 13 other sayings from Chanakya
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. 6 other wisdom & wit from Jules Renard
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 17 other thoughts from Plutarch
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. 4 thoughts from Robert Burton
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. 25 thoughts from Simone Weil
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 6 quotes from Thomas J. Watson
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. 47 more views from Abraham Lincoln
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. 31 thoughts from Thomas Paine
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. 47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. 24 other views from Ayn Rand
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. 29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power. 4 other thoughts from George Meredith
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. 30 views from George Washington
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. 6 more quotes from Huey Newton
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. 6 wisdom & wit from Barbara Jordan
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. 25 sayings from Simone Weil
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 24 views from Ayn Rand
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? 13 other thoughts from Francois Rabelais
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. 25 views from Simone Weil
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. 45 other quotes from John Ruskin
People demand freedom only when they have no power. 26 other views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. 9 quotes from John Steinbeck
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. 22 views from Henry Adams
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. 14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? 3 more sayings from W. E. B. Du Bois
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. 7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. 45 thoughts from John Ruskin
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. 31 thoughts from Thomas Paine
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. 4 more quotes from Thomas Malthus
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. 16 other thoughts from Erich Fromm
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. 27 other quotes from James Madison
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. 18 other quotes from Jean Paul
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. 5 other views from Amelia Barr
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. 11 quotes from Rene Descartes
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. 50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. 2 other quotes from A. J. P. Taylor
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. 27 more views from James Madison
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. 105 other views from Albert Einstein
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. 27 other quotes from James Madison
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. 16 quotes from Erich Fromm
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. 9 other quotes from Andrew Jackson
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. 5 views from Augustus Hare
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. 27 other thoughts from James Madison
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. 27 thoughts from James Madison
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. 11 more quotes from Rene Descartes
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? 9 more quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning