Power Quotes

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
Adam Schiff

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

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

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
Deborah Tannen

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
William Moulton Marston

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

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

I believe in the power of weakness.
Pat Buckley