Power Quotes: Inspiring Words on Strength and Influence

"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, Novelist

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers"

William Blake, Poet

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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

Alice Walker, Author

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny"

David Hume, Philosopher

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"The power of social media is it forces necessary change"

Erik Qualman, Author

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

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