The two primary types of power are
the power to be effectively what one is
as a particular form of existence,
and the power to use what one is
within the greater whole
in which one is called upon to function.
-Dane Rudhyar
Power is the ability to empower oneself
and to empower others.
-Angeles Arrien
Power may be defined
as the production of intended effects.
-Bertrand Russell
Power is defined [as] the ability
to make certain things happen,
or to prevent certain things from happening.
-Alvin Toffler
In this short life
That lasts only an hour
How much, how little,
Is within our power!
-Emily Dickinson
Authentic power is built up
step by step, choice by choice.
-Gary Zukav
The measure of power
is obstacles overcome.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr.
He hath no power
who hath not power to use.
-Philip James Bailey
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will.
-Frederick Douglass
Power can be taken, but not given.
The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
-Gloria Steinem
Ultimately, if by slow degrees,
power follows the ability to wield it.
-R. H. Tawney
The real secret of power
is consciousness of power.
-Charles Haanel
The measure of a man
is what he does with his power.
-Pittacus
We are defined
by how we use our power.
-Gerry Spence
Nobody is as powerful
as we make them out to be.
-Alice Walker
He who has great power
should use it lightly.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is by one just use of power,
and it is to serve people.
-George Herbert Walker Bush
Power is only important
as an instrument for service to the powerless.
-Lech Walesa
Material power that is not counterbalanced
by adequate spiritual power,
that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse.
-Anold Toynbee
Power is power over human beings.
Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-George Orwell
Except our own thoughts,
there is nothing absolutely in our power.
-Rene Descartes
There is no knowledge
that is not power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not altogether true that knowledge is power,
but the application of knowledge
within the self's experience is power.
-Edgar Cayce
Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power.
-Eric Thomas
Knowledge is power only when put to use -
and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
-David J. Schwartz
Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge,
you are held responsible for how you use it.
-Gary Zukav
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
-Robert Boyce
Foreknowledge is power.
-Auguste Comte
Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true.
Character is power.
-Sai Baba
Do the thing
and you shall have the power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is not more than
effortlessness of expression.
-Giulio Andreotti
Power felt within is soul;
without is nature.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
The power of the visible
is the invisible.
-Marianne Moore
We love and live in power;
it is the spirit's end.
-Philip James Bailey
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire
is that which he exercises over himself.
-Elie Wiesel
Most powerful is he
who has himself in his own power.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All power is from within
and is therefore under our control.
-Robert Collier
What it lies in our power to do,
it lies in our power not to do.
-Anonymous
Such power there is
in clear-eyed self-restraint.
-James Russell Lowell
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone
lead life to sovereign power.
-Alfred Tennyson
The cyclone derives its power from a calm center.
So does a person.
-Norman Vincent Peale
It is the greatest manifestation of power
to be calm.
-Vivekananda
True power is exercised
in quiet moments.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence preserves and concentrates power.
-Joan Hodgson
Power best expresses itself
in gentleness.
-Wu Wei
Love is your power. -A Course in Miracles
True power is "the power of love"
rather than "the love of power."
-Isha Lerner
The universal power
that manifests itself in the universal law
is at one with our true power.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Our power is not so much in
as through us.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
Do you want to be power in the world?
Then be yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Trine
Nothing we ever imagined
is beyond our powers,
only beyond our present self-knowledge.
-Theodore Roszak
