Power Quotes - Shayan e Shayari

We all have the power inside us, we just have to find it and put it to good use. Shayan e Shayari is providing you with these power quotes that will help you to be powerful in your life.

Take a look at these power quotes that will help you to know the power inside you:

1. "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

― Bruce Lee

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

― Lao-Tzu

3. "Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

― Nelson Mandela

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

― Abraham Lincoln

5. "Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power."

― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6. "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

― Lao Tzu

7. "Character is power."

― Booker T. Washington

8. "If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

9. "If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

― Peace Pilgrim

10. "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

― Robert A. Heinlein

11. "If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."

― Malcolm X

12. "A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

― Veronica Roth

13. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

―  Lord Acton

14. "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

15. "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

16. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

― Khalil Gibran

17. "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

― Marcus Aurelius

18. "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

― Epictetus

 20. "We will either find a way or make one."

― Anibal Barca

21. "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

― Aristotle

22. "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

― Edmund Burke

23. "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

24. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

25. "The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry."

― Muhammad

26. "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

― Leonardo da Vinci

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

― Abraham Lincoln

28. "And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."

― Paulo Coelho

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

― Ali ibn Abi Talib

30. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

― Alice Walker

31. "Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power."

― William Gaddis

32. "No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear."

― Greg Kincaid 

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

34. "Personality has the power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."

― Paul P. Harris

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

― John Adams

36. "We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."

― Mark Nepo

37. "There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility."

― Diane Nash

38. "Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

― Margaret Thatcher

39. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance."

― Jodi Picoult 

40.  "He is the most powerful who has power over himself."

― Seneca

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

― George Orwell

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

― Frederick Douglass

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

― George Bernard Shaw

44. "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

― Marie Curie

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

― Albert Einstein

46. "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

― Mark Twain

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

― Harold MacMillan

48. "When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

― Peter Marshall

49. "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.

50. "Knowledge is power."

― Francis Bacon

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

― Baltasar Gracian

52. "Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

― Demi Lovato

53. "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

54. "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 than the one derived from fear of punishment."

― Mahatma Gandhi

55. 'Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

― Samuel Johnson

56. "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

― Jane Austen

57. "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

58. "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

― Thomas Jefferson

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

― Henrik Ibsen

60. "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

― Charles de Gaulle

61. "Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed."

― Steven Erikson, Reaper’s Gale

62. "We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

― Eleanor Roosevelt

63. "Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

― Blaise Pascal

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

― Malcolm X

65. "It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

― Vincent Van Gogh

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

― George Washington

67. "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, and self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power."

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

― Pittacus

69. "Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

― Drew Barrymore

70. "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

71. "I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us."

― Veronica Roth

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

73. "I do not wish them [women] to have power over men, but over themselves."

― Mary Wollstonecraft

74. "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

75. "Power isn’t controlled at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own." 

― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

76. "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

― Edward Abbey

77. "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

78. "I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

― Audrey Hepburn

79. "Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word, or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality."

― Ann Wigmore

80. "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

― Marian Wright Edelman

82. "All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

― Victor Hugo

83. "Our power is in our ability to decide."

― Buckminster Fuller

84. "The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

― Criss Jami

85. "The only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape the future."

― Eric Hoffer

86. "When people see you’re happy doing what you’re doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it."

― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

87. "Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."

― Benjamin Disraeli

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

― James F. Byrnes

90. "Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."

― Joel Osteen

91. "When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do."

― RuPaul

92. "The greatest power is not money power, but political power."

― Walter Annenberg

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

― J. Petit-Senn

94. "The power behind words lies with the person."

― Renee Ahdieh

95. "Power is the great aphrodisiac."

― Henry Kissinger

96. "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall."

― Bacon

97. "It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it."

― Elias Canetti

98. "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

― William Plomer

99. "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

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

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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