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, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Ayn Rand
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara de Angelis
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass