power quotes

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ”

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

— Aristotle

“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ”

— Aristotle

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

— Aristotle

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

— Bruce Lee

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

— Jane Austen

“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.”

— Jane Austen

“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ”

— Winston Churchill

“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“Power is not alluring to pure minds”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

— Og Mandino

“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.”

— Stephen Hawking

“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”

— Horace

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”

— Euripides

“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”

— Stendhal

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”

— Stendhal

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact”

— Honore de Balzac

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”

— Honore de Balzac