1. Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. - Andrew Young 

2. Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. - Barney Frank 

3. Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. - Lech Walesa 

4. Power is dangerous unless you have humility. - Richard J. Daley 

5. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. - Frederick the Great 

6. Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. - Alexis Carrel 

7. The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. - Anita Hill 

8. Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. - Paul P. Harris 

9. The way to have power is to take it. - Boss Tweed 

10. The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. - Aneurin Bevan 

11. Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. - Nelson Rockefeller 

12. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. - Arnold J. Toynbee 

13. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. - Peace Pilgrim 

14. The greatest power is often simple patience. - E. Joseph Cossman 

15. Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. - William Gaddis 

16. No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. - Allen Klein 

17. Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. - Allen Klein 

18. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - John Dalberg-Acton 

19. Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. - Ludwig von Mises 

20. When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. - Susan Sarandon 

21. A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. - Pierre Corneille 

22. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. - Alfred A. Montapert 

23. Calmness is the cradle of power. - Josiah Gilbert Holland 

24. There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. - Sophie Swetchine 

25. People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. - Don DeLillo 

26. People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. - Don DeLillo 

27. The power of the people and the power of reason are one. - Georg Buchner 

28. Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. - Charles Simmons 

29. Every crisis offers you extra desired power. - William Moulton Marston 

30. Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. - William Pitt 

31. Prestige is the shadow of money and power. - C. Wright Mills 

32. The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. - Edwin Land 

33. Power is paradoxical. - Friedrich Durrenmatt 

34. Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. - Deborah Tannen 

35. In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. - A. J. P. Taylor 

36. Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. - Eric Sevareid 

37. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer 

38. Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. - Benjamin F. Wade 

39. The greatest power is not money power, but political power. - Walter Annenberg 

40. America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. - Adam Schiff 

41. Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 

42. Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. - George A. Smith 

43. The only power you have is the word no. - Frances McDormand 

44. I believe in the power of weakness. - Pat Buckley 

45. Power in America today is control of the means of communication. - Theodore White 

46. The law has no power over heroes. - Charlotte Lennox 

47. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor E. Frankl 

48. The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. - Thomas Hobbes 

49. 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. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

50. There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. - Ida Tarbell 

51. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

52. 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 

53. Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. - Mahatma Gandhi 

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

55. During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. - Thomas Hobbes 

56. The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. - Thomas Hobbes 

57. For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. - Abraham Lincoln 

58. Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. - Marcus Aurelius 

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

60. The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir 

61. 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. - Leo Buscaglia 

62. 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. - Anne Frank 

63. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph 

64. Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 

65. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan 

66. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. - Aung San Suu Kyi 

67. Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels. - Joe Kaeser 

68. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

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

70. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. - Ronald Reagan 

71. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx 

72. Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? - Khalil Gibran 

73. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. - Muhammad Ali 

74. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. - James Baldwin 

75. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. - Napoleon Hill 

76. You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. - Joel Osteen 

77. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. - Stephen Covey 

78. The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

79. Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. - Andrew Jackson 

80. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George Orwell 

81. I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. - Bob Dylan 

82. That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others. - Pete Buttigieg

83. Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. - Julius Caesar 

84. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand 

85. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. - George Eliot 

86. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. - Edmund Burke 

87. 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. - Jordan Peterson 

88. It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. - Elon Musk 

89. Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. - John Adams 

90. Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. - Robert Baden-Powell 

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

92. The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. - Nikola Tesla 

93. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes 

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

95. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. - Louisa May Alcott 

96. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. - Montesquieu 

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

98. If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? - Mary Wollstonecraft 

99. It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside. - Fred Rogers 

100. Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. - Huey Newton