Ability Quote by James A. Garfield

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

— William Hazlitt

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to…

— Alfred de Vigny

Great power involves great responsibility

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they…

— Omari Hardwick

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

— William Powell

A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common…

— Max Ernst

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

— David Stras

“Great powers can tend to be casual because the situation is not existential. This increases the cost of doing what is necessary.”

— George Friedman

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

— Andrew Carnegie