Popular Quotations About Power (15 Quotes)
1. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
2. I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
- Veronica Roth
3. When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Robert Anthony
4. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
- Wole Soyinka
5. Power doesn't corrupt man, fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- George Bernard Shaw
6. Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
- Bible
7. Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
- Laura Anne Gilman
8. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
9. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Weisel
10. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- Jonathan Swift
11. The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
- Nicholas Black
12. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca
13. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
- Tao Te Ching
14. Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
- Malcolm X
15. In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
