36 quotes on power and authority

 Strength: Good or Bad? Learn about power quotes from these famous people.

I must add that the inclusion of power quotes here does not necessarily mean that I endorse or agree with the power quotes or the person who said so. I hope these strength quotes will benefit you in your daily life.

_The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. —Mahatma Gandhi

 

_Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

_Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. —John Steinbeck

_Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. —Paulo Freire

_The measure of a man is what he does with power. —Plato

_Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. —Charles de Gaulle

_It is said that power corrupts, but it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. —David Brin

_Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. —Elie Weisel

_For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. —Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

_The object of power is power. —George Orwell, 1984

_We know that no one ever seizes power to relinquish it. —George Orwell, 1984

_Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

_Knowledge is power. —Francis Bacon

_ To obtain and hold power, a man must love it. —Leo Tolstoy

_The steps of power are often steps on sand. —Edward Counsel, Maxims

_Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. —Henry Kissinger

_One of the things about powerful people is they can make it look easy. —Ice-T

_The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. —Edmund Burke

_With great power there must also come great responsibility! —Stan Lee

_Absolute power was not meant for man. —William E. Channing, Thoughts

_To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. —Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

_Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. —Tao Te Ching

_If you can abuse your power you have too much. —Marty Rubin

_Do the thing and you will have the power. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

_Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. —Leo Tolstoy, War, and Peace

_And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. —E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

_Power lacks morals or principles. It only has interests. —Horacio Castellanos Moya

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

_Calmness is the cradle of power. —J.G. Holland

_The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. —Henrik Ibsen

_You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. —Amy Tan

_Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. —Margaret Thatcher

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

_Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! —Ralph Waldo Emerson

_Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. —Seneca

_O, it is excellent/To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/To use it like a giant. —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2.