Power Quotes
116 quotations about Power
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
The point of power is always in the present moment.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
The property of power is to protect.
The look of a king is itself a deed.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.