Memorable Power Quotes

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"I have the power to make the best of what is beyond my control."
John Enright
"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power."
Malcolm X
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Helen Keller
"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it."
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall."
Francis Bacon
"The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."
Wael Ghonim
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Winston Churchill
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller."
Steve Jobs
"There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise."
W.E.B. Du Bois
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
Lao Tzu
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
George Orwell
"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
Brooke Astor
"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. There’s no such thing as the fear being too big or too powerful. We are always bigger and more powerful."
Joan Lunden
"True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero and leader."
Yung Pueblo
"Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul."
Rick Owens
"True power is not in forcing others to be submissive. It's in conquering the self."
Luffina Lourduraj
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
John Steinbeck
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall."
Varys, Game of Thrones
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes."
Liberty Hyde Bailey
"Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
Edward Abbey
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters: the power of daring."
Cynthia Ozick
"Power concedes nothing without a demand."
Frederick Douglass
"Power perceived is power achieved."
Geoffrey F. Fisher
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
"Power is nothing without control."
John D. Rockefeller
"Power is given only to one who dares to stoop and take it."
Dostoevsky
"The only way to deal with a force that's destroying you is to stand up to it."
Margaret Atwood
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
Edmund Burke
"The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
James Madison
"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application—practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
Fay Weldon
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James
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"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
George S. Patton
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
Seth Godin
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Winston S. Churchill
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Power is not a means; it is an end."
George Orwell
"The only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them."
Winston Churchill
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Gloria Steinem
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
William Gaddis
"The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start at any moment you choose."
Guy Finley
"The true power of an individual is in their ability to empower others."
Sherry Argov
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
Mark Twain
"Power is gained by sharing knowledge, not hoarding it."
Unknown
"True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader."
Yung Pueblo
"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
Beyoncé
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Voltaire
"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Plato
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass
"Ultimate power is control over oneself."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
Honore de Balzac
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger
"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
Mia Farrow
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Power never takes a back step — only in the face of more power."
Malcolm X
"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
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest power is often simple patience."
E. Joseph Cossman
"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
James Madison
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
John Steinbeck
"In politics, shared power is the key to success."
Conrad Black
"The successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
David Brinkley
"Power is like a snake; it has to be handled with care."
Ratan Tata
"Power is the ability to achieve purpose."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only way to deal with this is to take full command of your own life and be a power unto yourself."
Tony Robbins
"Power is always in someone’s hands."
David Icke
"Real power is not only what you can do, but what you do with what you have."
Henry Ford
"Those who seek to control others are themselves in the grip of their own fear."
Robert Greene
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
Anne Frank
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
David Viscott
"True power is always within and never outside of yourself."
Lao Tzu
"The power of thought is the most powerful force in the universe."
Dale Carnegie
"To gain power, one must first learn to surrender power."
Swami Sivananda
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
Indira Gandhi
"Power doesn't always have to show itself. Sometimes it's best to sit back and watch."
Socrates
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton
"The best proof of love is trust."
Joyce Brothers
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
Thomas Merton
"Leadership is not about power. It's about empowering other."
Bill Gates
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Power is okay, and I think people are very wary of it. I think they're very scared of it, because ultimately power is very seductive."
Suzanne Somers
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
Woodrow Wilson
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Plutarch
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"Authority forgets a dying king."
Alfred Tennyson
"Power is a trick. It gives you the illusion of control, but mostly it just puts you at the mercy of events."
Leigh Bardugo
"Power is a drug. Those who have tasted it, want more."
Viktor Suvorov
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
Charles de Montesquieu
"All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Thucydides
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