Power Quotes

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

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

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.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

The only power you have is the word no.

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

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.