1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
John Ray

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
Hillary Clinton

I believe in delegating power.
Hillary Clinton

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
Hillary Clinton

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero