1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

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

I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

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 obey.
Denis Diderot

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

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

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
David Ogilvy

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
Alexis Carrel

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Oskar Schindler