Great Power Quotes
194 quotes by 177 authors
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
— Josh Billings
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The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
— John Boehner
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids…
— Dan Brown
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I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant…
— Amy Chua
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time…
— Errol Barrow
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in…
— Adolf Hitler
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to…
— William Butler Yeats
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create…
— Josiah Stamp
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I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
— Adolf Hitler
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Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western…
— Zhores Alferov
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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still…
— Hilma af Klint
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As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend…
— Roger McDonald
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Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
— Roger McDonald
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Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are…
— Henry Tizard
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves;…
— Ching Hai
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My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was…
— Daniel Pearce
Who Wrote These Great Power Quotes
177 authors contributed a total of 194 Great Power Quotes, led by these top contributors: