Power Quotes

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

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.

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

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.