Power Quotes - page 10

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. (Ayn Rand)
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. View quote
Alfred Marshall
The way to have power is to take it. View quote
William M. Tweed
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. View quote
James Allen
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. View quote
Joseph McCabe
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time. View quote
Albert Pujols
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. View quote
Marcel Marceau
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. View quote
Edmund Burke
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. View quote
Christopher Reeve
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. View quote
Margaret Mead
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. (Morihei Ueshiba)
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. View quote
Samuel Johnson
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. View quote
Elie Wiesel