Power Quotes and Sayings

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

You will never know the power of yourself until someone hurts you badly.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
– Lao Tzu

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

If you want to know the real character of a person, give him power and see what he does.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.
– Chuck Palahniuk

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power- he’s free again.
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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

Knowledge is power.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
– Charles de Gaulle

Be a reason for someone’s happiness,not just part of it and be a part of someone’s sadness,never be the reason for it.

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

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

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

Knowledge is power,
Understanding is using it,
Wisdom is controlling it,
Magic is knowing how.