Quotes
Quotes about Power
Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete; But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour, It has no great significance, it loses half its power.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
