Power Quotes

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

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

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.

I shall do all that may be in my power to promote a peaceful settlement of all our difficulties. The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am.

I have been unwilling to go beyond the pressure of necessity in the unusual exercise of power.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

Whoever will not be a hammer in history, will be an anvil.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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

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

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than the commitment to a dream.

Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.

Nuclear fission. Here's the one-sentence case for nuclear power: It's the only carbon-free energy source that can reliably deliver power day and night, through every season, almost anywhere on earth, that has been proven to work on a large scale.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritualpower is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.