Power Quotes
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
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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.
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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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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.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
