Motivational Quotes

Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

2.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

3.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

4.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

5.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

7.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

8.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

9.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

10.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

14.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

15.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

16.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

17.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

18.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

19.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

21.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

22.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

26.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

27.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

32.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

33.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

35.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

37.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

38.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

39.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

40.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

41.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

42.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

43.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

44.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

46.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

48.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

49.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

50.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.

Quotes on Advertising

Advice

Age

Age and aging

Alcohol and alcoholism

Christians and christianity

Churches

Civilization

Colleges and universities

Quotes on Commitment

Common sense

Communication

Communism and socialism

Competition

Quotes on Complaints and complaining

Quotes on Contentment

Fools and foolishness

Quotes on Forgiveness

Freedom

Friends and friendship

Quotes on Heroes and heroism

History and historians

Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals

Jesus christ

Journalism and journalists

Quotes on Law and lawyers

Quotes on Lies and lying

Quotes on Losers and losing

Parents and parenting

Philosophers and philosophy

Quotes on Photography

Quotes on Possibilities

Quotes on Procrastination

Quotes on Respectability

Quotes on Speakers and speaking

Quotes on Things and little things

Thoughts and thinking