Power Quotes

A friend in power is a friend lost. (Henry Adams)
Power is the great aphrodisiac. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. View quote
René Descartes
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. View quote
Voltaire
Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. View quote
Aristotle
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. View quote
Epictetus
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. View quote
Plutarch
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. View quote
Alice Walker
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. View quote
Aristotle
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. View quote
Tacitus
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. View quote
Plutarch
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
For knowledge, too, is itself power. View quote
Francis Bacon
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Seneca)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. View quote
Epictetus
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. View quote
Euripides
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. View quote
Plato
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
📖 Power Proverbs