Power Quotes
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
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We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Paul Robeson
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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
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This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Thomas Aquinas
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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and soulfulness.
Johnny Flynn
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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.
Dinesh D'Souza
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
Stéphane Charbonnier
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Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
K. P. Yohannan
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
Kenneth Lay
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There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.
Lewis Hamilton
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
Abraham Lincoln
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
Abigail McCarthy
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Tacitus
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
Cate Blanchett
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
Barry S. Strauss
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U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.
David Ignatius
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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.
William Dobell
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
Brennan Manning
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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
Erica Jong
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The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan