Power Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
– Alice Walker

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
– Stendhal

“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
– William Wordsworth

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”
– Andrew Carnegie

“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
– Aneurin Bevan

“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
– Alvin Toffler

“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
– Phillips Brooks

“Excessive fear is always powerless.”
– Aeschylus

“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
– Friedrich Schiller

“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.”
– Richard J. Daley

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
– Susan Sarandon

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”
– A. Bartlett Giamatti

“You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!”
– Amy Tan

“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
– David Brin

“Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.”
– Thomas Fuller

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
– Elie Wiesel

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.”
– Eric Hoffer

“There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutions to cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
– Eric Hoffer

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
– Harry Shearer

“The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.”
– Henrik Ibsen

“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
– James A. Garfield

“The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
– James Madison

“We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”
– Jennifer Hudson

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.”
– John Stuart Mill

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