1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


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

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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 as much of a turn-on as his money.
Donald Trump

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