
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.Malala Yousafzai
These 65 quotes on power come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

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

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.Swami Vivekananda

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.Thich Nhat Hanh

It is not power that corrupts but fear.Aung San Suu Kyi

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.Peter Singer

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.Mary Shelley

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.Kofi Annan

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

Knowledge itself is power.Francis Bacon

A word after a word after a word is power.Margaret Atwood

He who feeds you, controls you.Thomas Sankara

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers.Black Elk

I want our nation to be the most beautiful in the world — not the most powerful, but the most beautiful.Kim Gu

Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.Guru Nanak
Truth is powerful and it prevails.Sojourner Truth
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.Leonardo da Vinci
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.Joseph Stalin
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.Honore de Balzac
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.Napoleon Hill
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.Epictetus
The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.Charles Darwin
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Ovid
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.David Seamans
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.Eckhart Tolle
You can be what you want to be. You have the power within and we will help you always.Byron Pulsifer
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.Wayne Dyer
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.Voltaire
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.Denis Waitley
It is not the mistake that has the most power, instead, it is learning from the mistake to advance your own attributes.Byron Roberts
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.Lao Tzu
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.Stephen Covey
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.John F. Kennedy
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.Lao Tzu
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.Marcus Aurelius
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.Bruce Lee
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.John Marshall
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.Audre Lorde
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.Tony Robbins
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.William Wordsworth
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.Allama Iqbal
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.Catherine the Great
The real power of money is the power to give it away.Narayana Murthy
Performance leads to recognition. Recognition leads to respect. Respect leads to power.Narayana Murthy
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.Jackie Chan
No power is more expensive than no power.Homi Bhabha

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.Blaise Pascal

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.Osho

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.Blaise Pascal

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking.Carl Jung

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.Maya Angelou

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.Benjamin Disraeli

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.Epictetus

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.Martin Buber