Quotes by Power Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese free-will single-relationship power When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. Charles Caleb Colton frustration grace power Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Charles Caleb Colton exaltation power giving There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former. Charles Caleb Colton power age two That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Charles Caleb Colton cowardice power overcoming To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton pain real power It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton power mistake order Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles de Gaulle weapons silence power We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority. Charles Evans Hughes loyalty power exercise The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he." Charles Fillmore power character men The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Charles Horton Cooley power inspire life The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely. Charles Horton Cooley passion power sex Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds Charles I of England voting power kings All political power is a trust. Charles James Fox political-power political power And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem. Charles Kettering learning real power He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Charles Kingsley sarcastic power men Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody. Charles Koch coerce power Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it. Charles Krauthammer pride power men When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. Charles Lamb peculiar power heart What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. Charles Lindbergh volcanoes egypt power «678910111213141516»