Power Quotes

Power should be used in a right and balanced manner otherwise imbalanced or biased used of it can bring so worst results for the area of world. Here we brought quotes of high officials and famous personnel about power to understand it and its usage.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Aung San Suu Kyi

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
Donald Trump

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de Balzac

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

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

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Power is paradoxical.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
David Ogilvy

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Bernard Baruch

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Oskar Schindler

Politics is not about power.
Paul Wellstone

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
Allen Klein

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Charles de Secondat

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington