Power Quotes and Sayings
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Abigail Adams
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Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh. Aeschylus
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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
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power. Walter Annenberg
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle
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Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. Bernard Baruch
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. Henry Ward Beecher
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. Aneurin Bevan
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one. Georg Buchner
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I believe in the power of weakness. Pat Buckley
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see. Thomas Carlyle
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. Alexis Carrel
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. Catherine II
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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. Cher
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. Pierre Corneille
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The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Cossman
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The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Power is dangerous unless you have humility. Richard J. Daley
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. Don DeLillo
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Don DeLillo
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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. Denis Diderot
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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Everett Dirksen
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
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Power is paradoxical. Friedrich Durrenmatt
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I cured with the power that came through me. Black Elk
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. Barney Frank
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles de Gaulle
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. Paul Harris
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. Carolyn Heilbrun
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. Anita Hill
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. Eric Hoffer
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. Andrew Jackson
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Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry A. Kissinger
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No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. Allen Klein
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. Allen Klein
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. Aung San Suu Kyi
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee
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The law has no power over heroes. Charlotte Lennox
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
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Every crisis offers you extra desired power. William Moulton Marston
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The only power you have is the word no. Frances McDormand
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills
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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. Alfred A. Montapert
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir
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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. Bill O'Reilly
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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. David Ogilvy
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese
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An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. Phaedrus
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. William Pitt
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Ayn Rand
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Rockefeller
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon
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America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. Adam Schiff
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. Oskar Schindler
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer
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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. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Power ought to serve as a check to power. Charles de Secondat
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid
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Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Charles Simmons
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. George A. Smith
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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
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. Baruch Spinoza
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Stendhal
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. Deborah Tannen
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. A. J. P. Taylor
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Thatcher
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler
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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. Arnold J. Toynbee
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Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. Donald Trump
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Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth
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The way to have power is to take it. Boss Tweed
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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. Benjamin F. Wade
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. Alice Walker
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker
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Character is power. Booker T. Washington
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Booker T. Washington
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts
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Politics is not about power. Paul Wellstone
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication. Theodore White
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. Andrew Young
