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

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

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

Margaret Lee Runbeck, 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

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

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

Ronald Reagan, President

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

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

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"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

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, 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

"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

"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

"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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Voltaire, Writer

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

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

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

David Hume, Philosopher

"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power"

Lao Tzu, Author

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Power has to be insecure to be responsive"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

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

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"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

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done"

Jane Austen, Writer

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

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power"

Andrew Jackson, President

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