Power Quotes

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

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.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.