Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old power quotes, power sayings, and power proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao-Tzu
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Our power is in our ability to decide.Buckminster Fuller
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.William Gaddis
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.James F. Byrnes
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
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Character is power.Booker T. Washington
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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
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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
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The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.J. Petit-Senn
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.Bacon
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.Edmund Burke
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.Thomas Jefferson
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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.Cotvos
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.George Bernard Shaw
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.John Adams
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.Gloria Steinem
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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.Arabic Proverbs
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Power is the by-product of understanding.Jacob Bronowski
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.Harold MacMillan
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The greatest power is often simple patience.E. Joseph Cossman
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Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.Author Erin Hunter
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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
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The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.Kit Harington
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.Honoré de Balzac
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.Samuel Johnson
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Baltasar Gracian
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. Malcolm X