Power Quotes

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years"

Robert Caro, Writer

"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment"

John McDonald, Leader

"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best"

Edward Abbey, Author

"I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place"

James Naismith, Inventor

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman"

Chanakya, Politician

"You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"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"

James Allen, Author

"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation"

James Allen, Author

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat"

Henry Miller, Writer

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power"

Al Gore, Vice President

"These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice"

George Mason, Statesman

"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth"

Chanakya, Politician

"With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power"

Orville Wright, Inventor

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