Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay
Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,… — Unknown Author
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. — Sophie Swetchine
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. — James Madison
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone… — James Madison
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. — Laozi
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. — Thucydides
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.... — Janet Morris
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. — Reginald Farrer
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack… — Lance Morrow
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable. — Unknown Author
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the… — John D. Rockefeller
I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power. — Unknown Author
Freedom exists only with power. — Friedrich Schiller
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. — Robert Collier
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. — W. Clement Stone

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