power quotes

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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— Nelson Mandela

“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. ”

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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— Robert Anson Heinlein

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

— Winston Churchill

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”

— William James

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

— Indira Gandhi

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

— Albert Einstein

“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.”

— Henry Miller

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”

— Nido Qubein

“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”

— Edmund Burke

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

“It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.”

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ”

— Salvador Dali

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ”

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