| Quote 479 | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| Quote 3431 | What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. |
| Quote 7650 | Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. |
| Quote 7659 | Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. |
| Quote 7700 | 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, h... |
| Quote 7707 | The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. |
| Quote 7789 | Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. |
| Quote 7914 | The only power you have is the word no.
- Frances McDormand |
| Quote 7990 | Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. |
| Quote 8028 | The law has no power over heroes.
- Charlotte Lennox |
| Quote 8038 | Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. |
| Quote 8057 | Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. |
| Quote 8075 | Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon |
| Quote 8080 | I believe in the power of weakness.
- William Wordsworth |
| Quote 8115 | Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Charles de Secondat |
| Quote 8116 | Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. |
| Quote 8132 | Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
- Victor Hugo |
| Quote 8188 | The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. |
| Quote 8244 | The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. |
| Quote 8274 | The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. |
| Quote 8341 | When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. |
| Quote 8386 | Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. |
| Quote 8457 | Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. |
| Quote 8483 | Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. |
| Quote 8660 | There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. |
| Quote 8710 | No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. |
| Quote 8787 | Truth is powerful and it prevails.
- Sojourner Truth |
| Quote 8802 | I cured with the power that came through me.
- Black Elk |
| Quote 8809 | All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
| Quote 8897 | Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. |
| Quote 9042 | Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. |
| Quote 9092 | Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
- Richard J. Daley |
| Quote 9234 | The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman |
| Quote 9313 | The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. |
| Quote 9333 | Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. |
| Quote 9376 | Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. |
| Quote 9387 | America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. |
| Quote 9427 | Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
- C. Wright Mills |
| Quote 9439 | The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. |
| Quote 9447 | There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. |
| Quote 9457 | An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. |
| Quote 9579 | 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! |
| Quote 9612 | I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. |
| Quote 9649 | There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. |
| Quote 9691 | The greatest power is not money power, but political power. |
| Quote 9966 | If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. |
| Quote 10018 | Excessive fear is always powerless.
- Ayn Rand |
| Quote 10069 | Power in America today is control of the means of communication. |
| Quote 10124 | Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
- Aeschylus |
| Quote 10262 | The eye sees what it brings the power to see. |
| Quote 10322 | Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obe... |
| Quote 10372 | Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. |
| Quote 10402 | Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. |
| Quote 10584 | Politics is not about power.
- Paul Wellstone |
| Quote 10613 | The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. |
| Quote 10647 | Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. |
| Quote 10670 | Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. |
| Quote 10677 | Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. |
| Quote 10699 | But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. |
| Quote 10768 | Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief ... |
| Quote 10927 | Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. |
| Quote 11003 | Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. |
| Quote 11008 | Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. |
| Quote 11010 | Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. |
| Quote 11020 | To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. |
| Quote 11123 | Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. |
| Quote 11310 | People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. |
| Quote 11423 | Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. |
| Quote 11455 | Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. |
| Quote 11461 | 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 ... |
| Quote 11466 | Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. |
| Quote 11513 | The power of the people and the power of reason are one. |
| Quote 11622 | There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. |
| Quote 11786 | The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! |
| Quote 11851 | Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost... |
| Quote 11855 | The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. |
| Quote 11991 | The way to have power is to take it.
- Boss Tweed |
| Quote 12102 | Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected b... |
| Quote 12112 | There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. |
| Quote 12149 | Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. |
| Quote 12195 | Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. |
| Quote 12474 | Character is power.
- Barney Frank |
| Quote 12476 | A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. |
| Quote 12629 | Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. |
| Quote 12703 | Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrat... |
| Quote 12753 | Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. |
| Quote 12804 | Power is the great aphrodisiac.
- Henry A. Kissinger |
| Quote 12852 | Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. |
| Quote 13003 | Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. |
| Quote 13030 | People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. |
| Quote 13075 | Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
- William Pitt |
| Quote 13157 | There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
| Quote 13197 | 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 peop... |
| Quote 13354 | Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. |
| Quote 13401 | Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. |
| Quote 13420 | Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
- Friedrich Schiller |
| Quote 13439 | Power is paradoxical.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Quote 13904 | What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? |
| Quote 13917 | Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
- Deborah Tannen |