power quotes

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Power is competence.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.