Power Quotes

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All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.~ Ashleigh Brilliant

Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.~ Aristotle

A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.~ Ethiopian Proverb

A powerful man has big ears.~ Japanese Proverb

Beauty is power.~ Arabian Proverb

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power – the freedom to choose. ~  Stephen R. Covey

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don’t insult them.~ Japanese Proverb

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.~ Power Quotes

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.~ Latin Proverb

Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power.~ German Proverb

Go with the powerful and people will kneel before you.~ Palestinian Proverb

He is most powerful who has power over himself. ~ Seneca

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ~  Lao Tzu

He who fears something gives it power over him.~ Moorish Proverb

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.~  Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.~  Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man becomes powerful even his chicken and his dog go to heaven.~ Chinese Proverb

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.~  Peace Pilgrim

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.~  Thomas Jefferson

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.~  Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is power.~ Francis Bacon, Sr.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.~ Epictetus

Man has responsibility, not power.~ Tuscarora proverb

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.~  Abraham Lincoln

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never give a sword to a fool or power to an unjust man.~ Greek Proverb

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.~ Chuck Palahniuk

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.~ Latin Proverb

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.~  Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is not alluring to pure minds. ~  Thomas Jefferson

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. ~ Oskar Shindler

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.~  Albert Einstein

The barking dog gives you no power — it gives you fear.~ Malagasy Proverb

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.~ Winston Churchill

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.~ Chinese Proverb

The lion’s power lies in our fear of him.~ Nigerian Proverb

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.~ Alice Walker

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.~  Eric Hoffer

The powerful are never faithful.~ Chinese Proverb

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.~ Winston Churchill

The power of the crocodile is in the water.~ Bantu Proverb

There is no knowledge that is not power. ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.~  Albert Einstein

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. ~ Ludwig Borne

The word of a powerful man is the truth.~ Bambara Proverb

Three are powerful: the Pope, the king, and the man who has nothing.~ Italian Proverb

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.~  Leo F. Buscaglia

Under a powerful general there are no feeble soldiers.~ Japanese Proverb

Use power to curb power.~ Chinese Proverb

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world – or to make it the last.~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire.~ Tibetan Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.~ Jimi Hendrix

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Power Quotes

When you strike at a king, you must kill him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where power reigns there is no room for reason.~ French Proverb

Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.~ Turkish Proverb

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
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

longer in your power – he’s free again.~  Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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