85 Power Quotes To Awaken The Power In You

With absolute power comes absolute responsibilities and if these absolute responsibilities are not realized then the absolute power becomes absolutely corrupt. And corrupt power has the ability to destroy everything. So here are some powerful power quotes and sayings for you to look up to.

We all have immense power in ourselves, we just have to find it and put it to good use. We are powerful enough to do anything we desire, we can achieve anything and be anything.

But one thing to remember is that with power comes responsibilities and uncontrolled power does more bad than good. If we have been given the authority of something, we should be self-conscious of not corrupting it anyway at any cost. We should always handle any power that comes within us or that is put our way by the outside world with care; because corrupt power is the worst enemy of us and the world around us. Because most of the problems in our society are arising because powerful people around are using their influence only to gain everything for themselves. If a person who does not know how to balance things is given a place of authority, he will destroy everything.

So here we have brought these power quotes and sayings for you to know your power and keep it in check, read on:

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Power Quotes

• “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” -Mahatma Gandhi
• “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao-Tzu

• “Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.”
• “Character is power.”  -Booker T. Washington
• “Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
• “No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
• “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
• “The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”
• “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”  -Malcolm X

• “Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” -Colton
• “If you want to know the real character of a person, give him power, and see what he does.”
• “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” -Epictetus
• “Be a reason for someone’s happiness, not just part of it and be a part of someone’s sadness, never be the reason for it.”
• “All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.” -Walter Raleigh
• “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”

• “Knowledge is power, Understanding is using it, Wisdom is controlling it, Magic is knowing how.”
• “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”  -Abraham Lincoln
• “Wherever there is power there is age.”
• “Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.” -William Gaddis
• “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.” -John Adams
• “He is the most powerful who has power over himself.”  – Seneca
• “Knowledge only becomes power when it is put into use.”
• “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”  -George Bernard Shaw

• “Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.” -Harold MacMillan
• “The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.” -Baltasar Gracian
• “Power is attained by those who seek it, Rarely those who deserve it.”
• “The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”
• “There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”

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Best Quotes About Power

• “Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.” -Samuel Johnson

• “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
• “The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.” – Henrik Ibsen
• “Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
• “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
• “Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.” -Malcolm X

• “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
• “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Pittacus
• “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” -Gloria Steinem
• “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
• “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
• “Our power is in our ability to decide.” -Buckminster Fuller
• “Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.”  – James F. Byrnes
• “The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.” – J. Petit-Senn

• “The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.” – Bacon
• “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” – Edmund Burke
• “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” – David Brin
• “Power is not alluring to pure minds.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.” – Cotvos
• “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.” – John Adams

• “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” – Seneca
• “If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.” – Arabic Proverbs

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Positive Power Quotes

• “Power is the by-product of understanding.” – Jacob Bronowski
• “The greatest power is often simple patience.” – E. Joseph Cossman
• “Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.” – Author Erin Hunter

• “Power doesn’t always roar…The art of exerting power is an art used in doses – the more hidden it is the more effective.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
• “The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it.” – Kit Harington
• “Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” – Honoré de Balzac
• “Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.” – Woodrow Wilson
• “We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.” – Max Lerner
• “Power ought to serve as a check to power.” – John Milton
• “The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” – Milton Friedman

• “You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.” – Adlai Stevenson I
• “Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.” – Jonathan Swift
• “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” – Elie Wiesel
• “The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” – William Booth

• “People with power always take advantage of those without power.” – Christopher Pike
• “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.” – Frank Herbert
• “With great power there must also come great responsibility!” -Stan Lee
• “And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.” – E.J. Patten
• “Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.” – Horacio Castellanos Moya
• “Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t.” – Oskar Shindler
• “The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.” – Henrik Ibsen

• “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” – John Quincy Adams
• “What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” – Aristotle
• “Power may be defined as the production of intended effects. It is thus a quantitative concept: given two men with similar desires, if one achieves all the desires that the other achieves, and also others, he has more power than the other.” – Bertrand Russell
• “There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life.” – Bertrand Russell
• “Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whether human or non-human.” – Bertrand Russell

• “Power has always been one of those words that everybody uses without necessarily being able to define satisfactorily.” – Dennis Hume Wrong
• “Power is treated both as a quality or attribute possessed by individuals, groups, or larger social structures and as an indicator of an active or interactive process or relation between individual or collective actors.” – Dennis Hume Wrong
• “Power is applied to physical phenomena and processes.” – Dennis Hume Wrong
• “In recent years power has tended to become an even more diffuse and far-ranging notion in social and political theory.” – Dennis Hume Wrong
• “Power is an essentially contested concept, meaning that people with difference values and beliefs are bound to disagree over its nature and definition.” – Dennis Hume Wrong
• “Find people who share your values, and you’ll conquer the world together.” – John Ratzenberger

Conclusion

Power has the power to do everything in this world, but we should keep in mind that balance is the need of life. And with rights come responsibilities. So let us balance our lives and always be on the right track. Always remember to keep your integrity intact. Have a good day ahead.

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