Power is authority, jurisdiction, control, command, sway, dominion mean the right to govern or rule or determine. Inspirational power quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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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. Mohandas Gandhi
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our power is in our ability to decide. Buckminster Fuller
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? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. Harold MacMillan
Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power. Malcolm X
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Jonathan Swift
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honoré de Balzac
Power is the by-product of understanding. Jacob Bronowski
Character is power. Booker T. Washington
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
With great power there must also come great responsibility! Stan Lee
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
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca
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
Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power. William Gaddis
The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Cossman
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle
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
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves. Cotvos
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. Arabic Proverbs
Power is applied to physical phenomena and processes. Dennis Hume Wrong
People with power always take advantage of those without power. Christopher Pike
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. Baltasar Gracian
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
Inspirational Power Quotes
Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. Author Erin Hunter
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. Bacon
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
The power impulse has two forms: explicit, in leaders; implicit in their followers. When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs. Bertrand Russell
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Mahatma Gandhi
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
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. John Adams
The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Milton Friedman
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel
Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whethen human or non-human. Bertrand Russell
There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life. Bertrand Russell
The measure of a man is what he does with power. Pittacus
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
Power is not alluring to pure minds. Thomas Jefferson
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Samuel Johnson
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. Adlai Stevenson I
Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. Horacio Castellanos Moya
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James F. Byrnes
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
The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender. William Booth
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. Frank Herbert
Amazing Power Quotes
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. Henrik Ibsen
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. Oskar Shindler
The power impulse has two forms: explicit, in leaders; implicit in their followers. When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs. Bertrand Russell
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. J. Petit-Senn
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 ought to serve as a check to power. John Milton
And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. E.J. Patten
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria Steinem
The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it. Kit Harington
