1. Power really is a test of character. In the hands of a person of integrity, it is of tremendous benefit; in the hands of a tyrant, it causes terrible destruction.

- John C. Maxwell

2. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

- Winston Churchill

3. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

- Peter Drucker

4. Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.

- Malcolm X

5. Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

- Ragnar Lothbrok

6. Power is neither good nor evil. It?just?is.?It’s?what people do with?power?that matters.

- C.J. Redwine

7. 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

8. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

9. Character is power.

- Booker T. Washington

10. 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

11. When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

- Robert Anthony

12. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

- Francis Bacon

13. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

- James F. Byrnes

14. Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

- Benjamin Disraeli

15. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

- Bruce Lee

16. All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

- Walter Raleigh

17. Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Friedrich von Schiller

18. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W.H. Murray

19. Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else’s circle.

- Lynn Andrews

20. Knowledge?is?only?potential?power. It?becomes power only?when, and if, it is organized?into?definite plans of action, and directed?to?a definite end.

- Napoleon Hill

21. It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

- Coretta Scott King

22. Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Harold MacMillan

23. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Albert Einstein

25. Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

- Samuel Johnson

26. Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

- Ayn Rand

27. Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

- Clint Eastwood

28. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

- George Bernard Shaw

29. Knowledge is power only when put to use – and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

- David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

30. 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

31. The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Charles Horton Cooley

32. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

- Honoré de Balzac

33. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- John Adams

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

35. The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it.

- Kit Harington

36. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

- Lao Tzu

37. Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

- Horacio Castellanos Moya

38. Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

- Edward Abbey

39. Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others.

- Beth Revis, Across the Universe

40. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

- George Orwell, 1984

41. The depositary of power is always unpopular.

- Benjamin Disraeli

42. The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.

- Edwin Land

43. The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

- Paolo Coelho

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

- Epictetus

45. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Mahatma Gandhi

46. If knowledge is power – then a god… am… I.

- Jim Carrey, Batman Forever

47. Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.

- Marian Wright Edelman

48. Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

- Dean Koontz

49. The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

- Baltasar Gracian

50. Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

- Condoleezza Rice

51. The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

- William Booth

52. Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- William Gaddis

53. What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

- Aristotle

54. The power to do good is also the power to do harm;?those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

- Milton Friedman

55. Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

- Adlai Stevenson

56. Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whether human or non-human.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Blaise Pascal

58. With great power there must also come great responsibility.

- Stan Lee

59. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

- Seneca The Younger

60. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

- Eric Hoffer

61. Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

- Erin Hunter

62. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

- Henrik Ibsen

63. Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

- Gloria Steinem

64. The measure of a man is what he does with power.

- Plato

65. 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

66. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

- Frederick Douglass

67. 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 Dostoyevsky

68. 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

69. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- Admiral Chester W. Nimmitz

70. In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

71. Personal power is more of an attitude or state of mind than an attempt to maneuver or control others.

- Cotvos

72. There is a source of power in each of us that we don’t realize until we take responsibility.

- Diane Nash

73. Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

- George Washington

74. Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.

- Tacitus

75. Wherever there is power there is age.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

76. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

- Alice Walker

77. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Charles de Gaulle

78. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

- Jonathan Swift

79. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

80. Do the thing and you will have the power.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

- Andrew Carnegie

82. Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

- George Washington

83. The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

- J. Petit-Senn

84. 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

85. The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.

- Joss Whedon

86. 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.

87. No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

88. Power has always been one of those words that everybody uses without necessarily being able to define satisfactorily.

- Dennis Hume Wrong, The Modern Condition

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

- Abraham Lincoln

90. Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

- Joel Osteen

91. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

- William Wordsworth

92. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

93. The greatest power is often simple patience.

- E. Joseph Cossman

94. Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

- Ossie Davis

95. Nobody gives you power, boy. Real power is something you TAKE.

- Jock Ewing, Dallas

96. In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Oskar Shindler

98. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

99. It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

- Charles Caleb Colton

100. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

101. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

- Mary Shelley

102. Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience, bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanized automaton.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

103. And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

- E.J. Patten

104. He hath no power that hath not power to use.

- Philip James Bailey

105. 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

106. A word after a word after a word is power.

- Margaret Atwood

107. Being?powerful is?like being?a?lady.?If you have?to?tell people you?are,?you aren’t.

- Margaret Thatcher

108. We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

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

- Epictetus

110. The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

- Walter Savage Landor

111. Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

- Edmund Burke

112. What do all powerful men want? More power.

- The Oracle, The Matrix Reloaded

113. You see what power is holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them.

- Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife

114. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Henry Kissinger

115. The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.

- Edmund Burke

116. 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

117. Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don’t abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

- Louisa May Alcott

118. 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

119. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

- John F. Kennedy

120. He chose money over power. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.

- Frank Underwood, House of Cards

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

- Alice Walker

122. Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

- John Quincy Adams

123. 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.

- Charles Caleb Colton

124. There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

- William Henry Harrison

125. There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life.

- Bertrand Russell

126. People with power always take advantage of those without power.

- Christopher Pike

127. Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

- Frank Herbert

128. Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

- Charlotte Charke

129. I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

- Robert Frost

130. Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

- Ali ibn Abi Talib