Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
