Power Quotes

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

The only thing power respects, is power.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.