Power Quotes - page 14

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. (Catherine II of Russia)
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. View quote
Francis Bacon
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. View quote
Francis Bacon
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The power of imagination makes us infinite. View quote
John Muir
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. View quote
Sholem Asch
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. View quote
Virginia Woolf
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. View quote
Jane Fonda
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. View quote
Edward de Bono
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. (Plutarch)
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. View quote
Plutarch
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. View quote
Michel Foucault
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. View quote
Robin Morgan
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. View quote
William Wordsworth
A power is passing from the earth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. (William Wordsworth)
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. View quote
Henry Adams
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. View quote
Vitruvius