A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
Adam Schiff
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
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
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
Deborah Tannen
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
William Moulton Marston
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
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth
I believe in the power of weakness.
Pat Buckley
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