Quotes
Quotes about Power
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.
Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.
It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
