Power Quotes
Francis Bacon
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but a depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to God."
Thomas Paine
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Virginia Woolf
"A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Will Rogers
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along a shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut."
Leo Tolstoy
"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Abraham Lincoln
"American will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
T.S. Elliot
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
Henry Ford
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
John Donne
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never sent to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Elbert Hubbard
"Art is the beautiful way of seeing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
Donald Trump
"As long as you are going to think anyway, think big."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
Margaret Thatcher
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Socrates
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Phyllis Diller
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
Charlotte Bronte
"Conventionality is not morality"
Billy Graham
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
Benjamin Franklin
"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and keep."
John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
Lazarus Long
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives too easy."
Roger Banister
"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be too timid or squeamish about our actions. All life is an experiment."
Noah Webster
"Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct."
Will Rogers
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
John Wooden
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Patrick Henry
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Mary Kay Ash
"God does not ask you ability, or your inability. He only asks your availability."
Plato
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Benjamin Franklin
"Half the truth is often a great lie."
Jack Dempsey
"Honey, I just forgot to duck."
Blaise Pascal
"How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything..."
C.S. Lewis
"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking of yourself less."
President Abraham Lincoln
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."
Groucho Marx
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book."
Thomas Jefferson
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Muhammad Ali
"I hated every minute of training, but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
John Paul Jones
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Thomas Edison
"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Elizabeth I
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a King of England too."
Unknown
"I will do today what others will not do so I can do tomorrow what others cannot do."
Og Mandino
"I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
Thoreau
"If a man does not keep peace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
John Steinbeck
"If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen... a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar."
Socrates
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."
George Bernard Shaw
"If you can't get rid of the skeletons in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
Stephen King
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
Henry Ford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Winston Churchill
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried."
Mother Theresa
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Jane Austin
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Mark Twain
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain
"It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
Stuart's Law of Retroaction
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."
President George Washington
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible!"
Edmund Burke
"It is only necessary for a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph"
Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Helen Keller
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
Mark Twain
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great."
Sun-Tzu
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
George Bernard Shaw
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got hold of for the moment and I was to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations."
Mark Twain
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Adolf Hitler
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Albert Einstein
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
Charlton Heston
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
Lord Acton
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Albert Einstein
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
Karl Marx
"Religion is the opiate of the people."
Francis Bacon
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
Les Brown
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
Teddy Roosevelt
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Neil Armstrong
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
John Jay
"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."
Vince Lombardi
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Coco Chanel
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
Plato
"The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men."
Thomas Carlyle
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion."
Montaigne
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a many may live long yet live very little."
Virgil
"They could do it because they believed they could."
Benjamin Franklin
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less travelled by."
Julius Caesar
"Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)."
Lee Lococca
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
Rick Warren
"We are products of our pasts, not prisoners of it."
Elbert Hubbard
"We are punished by our sins, not for them"
President Harry S. Truman
"We believe that all men are created equal because they were created in the image of God."
Maximus Desimus Meridius
"What we do in life echoes into eternity!"
Abigail Van Buren
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
C.S. Lewis
"You are never too old...to dream a new dream!"
Anne Lamott
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
C.S. Lewis
"You can shut Him for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that eye open to us... Jesus Christ was either a liar, lunatic, or He is the Lord."
Booker T. Washington
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
Winston Churchill
"You have enemies? Good! That mean you've stood up for something in your life."
George W. Bush
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interest and teach us what it means to be citizens.
Coach Bear Bryant
What matters in not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog."