Famous Quotes
- To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Power
- To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Power
- 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.
- Agnes De Mille on Power
- To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
- Robert Burton on Power
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- Joan Didion on Power
- To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
- Simone Weil on Power
- 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.
- Baruch Spinoza on Power
- To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.
- George MacDonald on Power
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- Marcus Aurelius on Power
- 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.
- 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.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Power
- To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
- Norman Thomas on Power
- To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
- Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
- Peter Drucker on Power
- Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.
- Nick Rahall on Power
- Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
- Marc Andreessen on Power
- Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
- Barack Obama on Power
- Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Power
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia on Power
- True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Power
- True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
- John W. Gardner on Power
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
- Milan Kundera on Power
- Truth is powerful and it prevails.
- Sojourner Truth on Power
- Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
- Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
- Jules Renard on Power
- Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
- Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Power
- Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
- Evel Knievel on Power
- Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
- Oprah Winfrey on Power
- Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
- William Pitt on Power
- 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.
- William Pitt on Power
- Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
- Jerry Saltz on Power
- Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush on Power
- Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
- Tony Robbins on Power
- Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
- Oliver Tambo on Power
- Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Power
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce on Power
- War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Power
- We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May Alcott on Power
- We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
- Rush Limbaugh on Power
- We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
- William Glasser on Power
- We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
- Stephen Covey on Power
- We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- Patrick Henry on Power
- We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.
- David Cameron on Power
- We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
- Charles Stanley on Power
- We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
- Maria Montessori on Power
- We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
- Paul Kagame on Power
- We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Power
- We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
- Calvin Coolidge on Power
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