Famous Power Quotes
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Enthusiasm…the sustaining power of all great action.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
As the first snow falls gently outside, covering the world in a white blanket, the season of reflection begins. Christmas is the moment when we leave behind the hustle and bustle of everyday life, embrace the warmth of community, and feel the power of love. May this festive time be filled with heartfelt moments for you and your loved ones.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.