Powers Quotes

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. (Frederick Douglass)
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. View quote
James K. Polk
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. View quote
Edmund Burke
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. View quote
James Hutton
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. View quote
Emo Philips
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. View quote
Matthew Arnold
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. View quote
Jane Austen
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. View quote
Boris Pasternak
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
William Wordsworth
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. View quote
Marcel Proust
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. (Loretta Napoleoni)
Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers. View quote
Goran Visnjic
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. View quote
José Martí
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman