30.9.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Power (1)

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

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

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

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

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

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

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

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

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

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore De Balzac

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker

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

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