Power Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of power quotations and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
– Bruce Lee

“Character is power.”
– Booker T. Washington

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
– Aristotle

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo

“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
– Ayn Rand

“The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowledge is power.”
– Francis Bacon

“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.”
– Ayn Rand

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
– Barbara de Angelis

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
– Frederick Douglass

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”
– Henry A. Kissinger

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
– Alice Walker

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”
– Blaise Pascal

“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
– Epictetus

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
– Erich Fromm

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
– Peace Pilgrim

“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

“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
– Blaise Pascal

“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
– Edmund Burke

“But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.”
– Alan Watts

“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
– Booker T. Washington

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
– Epicurus

“Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
– Edward Abbey

“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

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
– Honore de Balzac

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