Power Quotes
Sad Quotes about Power

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman

The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

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

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

I believe in the power of weakness.
- Pat Buckley

The way to have power is to take it.
- Boss Tweed

There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy

The value systems of those with access to power and
of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
- Aung San Suu Kyi

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
- Aeschylus

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle

Justice and power must be brought together,
so that whatever is just may be powerful,
and whatever is powerful may be just.
- Blaise Pascal

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
- Stendhal

Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
- Allen Klein

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
- Aneurin Bevan

Money is power, and in that government which pays all
the public officers of the states will all political
power be substantially concentrated.
- Andrew Jackson

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never go backward.
Attempt, and do it with all your might.
Determination is power.
- Charles Simmons

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
- Catherine II

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Charles de Secondat

There are two ways of attaining an important end,
force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter
grows irresistible with time.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
- Benjamin Disraeli

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain
about what he wants and sets out to get it,
no holds barred.
Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
- Donald Trump

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard,
very liable to be broken.
- Abigail Adams

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;
these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
- Richard J. Daley

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
- Friedrich Schiller

Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu