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

"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

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

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"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

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

"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

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

Voltaire, Writer

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"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

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

"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

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

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

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"Politics is a game of power; the more power you have, the more successful your policies will be"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

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

David Hume, Philosopher

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"

Herbert Hoover, President

"I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss"

Edward Grey, Politician

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people"

George Mason, Statesman

"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast"

Jay Inslee, Politician

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

Erik Qualman, Author

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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