Memorable Quotes About Power

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"Power is not a tool, but a foundation."
Helen Keller
"In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"Power is like a great ocean; it can be overwhelming if you're not careful."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"To be a leader is to be in power, but to exercise that power rightly is the true test."
John Quincy Adams
"With great power there must also come—great responsibility!"
Stan Lee
"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
C. P. Scott
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"Power is a tool for the powerful, but also an opportunity for the weak."
Robert Green
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"That which you think you cannot do is your greatest power."
Maya Angelou
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling
"All authority belongs to the people."
Mahatma Gandhi
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Real power is the ability to affect the lives of others and the world around you."
Thucydides
"The greatest power is not money power; it is the power of people."
Julius Nyerere
"He who knows others and knows himself is actually astute, but he who knows neither is foolish."
Lao Tzu
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
"The supreme power shall remain in the hands of the people."
Simon Bolivar
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
Maya Angelou
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Power is not a means; it is an end."
George Orwell
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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be liked, and the second, to make himself be respected."
Marlene Dietrich
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
George Bernard Shaw
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society."
B. R. Ambedkar
"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."
Muhammad Ali
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the world becomes a better place."
Laura Ling
"The power you give to others is the power that you can choose to take back."
Erin S. McKean
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"Power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcome you want."
Robert Cialdini
"If you want to test a man’s character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
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"All men are created equal, but only the best rise to the top."
Jeffrey Krames
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair
"Real power is not having an iron fist; it's being able to touch people's hearts."
Unafraid
"Power is a poor substitute for understanding and wisdom."
Steve Matthews
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan."
Benazir Bhutto
"You don't have to be a politician to be powerful."
Joe Biden
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the results you want."
John C. Maxwell
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
Alfred Crews
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao Zedong
"Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible."
Frank Herbert
"Power doesn't just come from the top, it is also in the grassroots."
Harriet Tubman
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see."
Paul Gauguin
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
George Orwell
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"If you want to influence people, you must be able to convince them."
William Ury
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger
"Power is not a project; it is a process."
Warren Bennis
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Lupita Nyong'o
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max DePree
"Power ends, and it has to be replaced with something."
Paul Tillich
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
John Lubbock
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Those who seek power are least fit to hold it."
Plato
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass
"If you want to know the measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
J.K. Rowling
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
Wael Ghonim
"You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Winston Churchill
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
Edward Abbey
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
"Power is a cruel master."
Lee Van Cleef
"Time is the only thing you can’t get back. Use it wisely."
Anonymous
"In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Plato
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Stan Lee
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
Beyoncé
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
Abraham Lincoln
"Power is a tool. It can be used for good or evil."
Anonymous
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
Julian Bond
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
John Steinbeck
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher
"The greatest weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
Lao Tzu
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
"To be a good leader, you must first become a good servant."
Robert Greenleaf
"Power intoxicates itself, and it intoxicates those who think they can use it."
Barbara Jordan
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
Pablo Picasso
"If you want to know the character of a man, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"In the end, the people that you love will leave you. The people that you hate will stay with you forever."
Chuck Palahniuk
"To wield power effectively, one must first understand its limits."
Richard Branson
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Oscar Wilde
"It's not the power itself, but how you use it that counts."
Michelle Obama
"Authority intoxicates, and makes foolish the most prudent."
Joseph Addison
"The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis."
Brian Tracy
"Power can be held without being used, but it should always be ready to use."
C.A. S. Ramachandran
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