Quotes About Power

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.