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Quotes About Power

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
~ Samuel Pepys
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
~ Jim Rohn
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
~ Epictetus
Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
~ Xenocrates
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
~ J. D. Salinger
Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.
~ Johnny Carson
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
~ Samuel Johnson
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
~ Alan Cohen
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
~ Vauvenargues
'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
~ Ralph Steadman
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Power is not happiness.
~ William Godwin
It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.
~ Jennifer Estep
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.
~ Markus Zusak
Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
~ Christopher Pike
Happiness lies in your own hand
~ Madonna Ciccone
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.
~ Frederick Lenz
The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To be strong is to be happy!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happiness is a warm gun.
~ John Lennon
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
~ Boyd K. Packer