Power Quotes

The ability to control an environment and dictate the behavioral pattern of certain institutions is known as power. Although power is acceptable and legitimate, in many societies it is still viewed as something that is unjust and malevolent to the entire social structure. A common characteristic of power is to hold an assertive and manipulative nature. Sociologist and philosophers have conflicting viewpoints on power and is often a highly debated subject. Read through the article to know more about these famous power quotations and sayings.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Respect
Clint Eastwood

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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
People World Giving
Mark Zuckerberg

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I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.
Dax Shepard

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The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
Ashton Kutcher

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Mind Strength
Marcus Aurelius

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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Beautiful Art Purity Creativity
Salvador Dali

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Trust
Toni Morrison

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Sadness Rule Corruption Wisdom
Thomas Hobbes

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Opportunities Knowledge
Peter Drucker

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honoré de Balzac

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Knowledge
Horace Mann

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My favorite TV show is probably 'Power.'
Mookie Betts

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I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
People Women
Maya Rudolph

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Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.
Age Music
John Legend

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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Nothing Confidence Nation
Catherine the Great

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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Gun
Mao Zedong

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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.
Anger Time
Aristotle

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Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.
Time
Monica Bellucci

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Misuse Liberty
James Madison

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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Government
Tony Blair

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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Life Ability Army Possible
Thomas Paine

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Happiness
Epictetus

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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Nature
Alexander Hamilton

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I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.
Mind Dreams
Juice Wrld

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The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.
Money
Jamie Dornan

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When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
People
John Legend

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I gots to make the dough to support myself and my disabled moms. God bless her soul. I live to bleed for that woman. I want to go as far as my power will take me.
God
Kimbo Slice

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Government Freedom History
Woodrow Wilson

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Progress
Indira Gandhi

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As a striker, you are playing against big defenders. They try to throw you around. I try to play in behind them, and I need power. I know that I have to go to the gym and train. I train all the time.
Time
Robert Lewandowski

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
People Intelligence Knowledge
James Madison

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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
People Media Social Media
Zendaya

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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
Government
John Roberts

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Zeal Energy
Oprah Winfrey

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I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.
Change Democracy Freedom
Shinzo Abe

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Nothing
Frederick Douglass

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If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
People Words
Stephen Colbert

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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lonliness Life
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Communication Language Moon
Rita Mae Brown

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I want to stay humble, but I have to talk because the other guys talk too much, and... I understand the crazy power the UFC PR machine has.
Khabib Nurmagomedov

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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Experience Women
Nancy Pelosi

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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Greatness People World
George W. Bush

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Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
People Justice
Bobby Seale

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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Music People Healing
Elton John

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
People
Margaret Thatcher

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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Aggression America Attitude Class
Malcolm X

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I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
Michael J. Fox

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Ability Appreciation Obstacles Sailing
Walter Scott

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Greatness Talent
Honoré de Balzac

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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
People
Chadwick Boseman

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There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.
Nothing People
Jill Biden

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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Gender
Sandra Day O'Connor

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Love Peace World
Jimi Hendrix

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I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
Art
Vasyl Lomachenko

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Politics Government Heritage
Thurgood Marshall

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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
Ted Cruz

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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Hatred People
Charlie Chaplin

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Law
Julius Caesar

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A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.
Curtis Jackson

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Music has the power to divert the violent minds.
Music
Ilaiyaraaja

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Words Reality Mind
Edgar Allan Poe

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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
People Character
Anne Frank

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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
People Focus
Larry Page

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Fear Freedom
Jim Morrison

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Knowledge is power.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon

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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Earth Truth Rest Sun
Chanakya

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Order Strength Happiness Synchronization
Thomas Merton

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Art Happiness
Henry Ward Beecher

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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.
Life Smile
Leo Buscaglia

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Country Government Democracy
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
Admiration Conduct Belief Creativity
Adolf Hitler

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I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
People Responsibility
Robert Sheehan

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I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.
History
Ron Howard

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The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
People
Julian Assange

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Truth
James Madison

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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Justice
James Baldwin

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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
Orville Wright

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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Weak Point Optimism Positivity
William James

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

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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Music World
Lady Gaga

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Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Work Happiness Hard Work
Beyonce Knowles

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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Good People
Mark Zuckerberg

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Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Being Alone
Tom Hanks

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Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.
Men Corruption Women
Jordan Peterson

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I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
Family Money Country
Megyn Kelly

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Greatness
Meryl Streep

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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
World
Malala Yousafzai

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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright

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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Funny Humor Ability Advice
Thomas More

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Best Meaningful Music Appreciation
John Greenleaf Whittier

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Character Knowledge
Bruce Lee

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I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.
Megan Fox

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I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Inspiration Truth
Sylvester Stallone

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When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
Democracy Government
Edward Snowden

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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
World Women
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Truth
Ice Cube

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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Death Penalty / Chastisement Reason Conviction
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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