The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.-Alice Walker
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.-Peace Pilgrim
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.-Paul P. Harris
Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.-Margaret Thatcher
Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.-William Gaddis
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.-Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.-Walter Annenberg
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.-William Plomer
Truth is powerful and it prevails.-Sojourner Truth
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.-Michel Foucault
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.-Susan Sarandon
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.-Eric Hoffer
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.-Edmund Burke
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.-Malala Yousafzai
Knowledge is power. – Francis Bacon
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.-John Dalberg-Acton
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.-Phillips Brooks
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
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.-Lao Tzu
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.-Friedrich Nietzsche
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.-Oskar Schindler
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.-Victor Hugo
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.-Frederick the Great
Power is the great aphrodisiac.-Henry Kissinger
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee
Calmness is the cradle of power.-Josiah Gilbert Holland
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.-Leonardo da Vinci
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.-Frederick Douglass
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.-Edward Abbey
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.-Phaedrus
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.-Alice Walker
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
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.-Indira Gandhi
Power ought to serve as a check to power.-Montesquieu
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. – Charles Simmons
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.-Mark Twain
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.-Aneurin Bevan
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.-Blaise Pascal
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.-Salvador Dali
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
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles de Gaulle
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.-Denis Diderot
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.-Richard J. Daley
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.-Niccolo Machiavelli
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.-Eleanor Roosevelt
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.-Nelson Rockefeller
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.-William Pitt
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.-C. Wright Mills
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
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. – Epictetus
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
The greatest power is often simple patience.-E. Joseph Cossman
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.-Benjamin Disraeli
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.-Sophie Swetchine