Quotes on Power

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.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .