Power is the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way. It can refer to physical strength, authority, control, influence, energy, or force. Power can be found in various contexts, such as personal relationships, social dynamics, political structures, or even natural forces. It can be used positively to effect change, create, protect, or improve, but it can also be wielded negatively to dominate, manipulate, or oppress.
Power Quotes
1. “Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
2. “With great power comes great responsibility.”
— Voltaire
3. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
— Lord Acton
4. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker
5. “The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”
— Joseph Stalin
6. “Power is not given to you. You have to take it.”
— Beyoncé
7. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
8. “Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
— Margaret Thatcher
9. “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
10. “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.
11. “The greatest power is often simple patience.
— E. Joseph Cossman
12. “Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.”
— Luigina Sgarro
13. “The most common way people lose power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker
14. “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
— Henry Kissinger
15. “Power is the ability to do good things for others.”
— Brooke Astor
16. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
— Frederick Douglass
17. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
— George Orwell
18. “The greatest power is the power to be selfless.”
— Keshavan Nair
19. “The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.”
— J. Martin Kohe
20. “Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.”
— Steve Goodier