Power Quotes

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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