Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

10.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

13.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

14.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

17.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

22.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

24.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

25.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

26.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

30.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

31.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

36.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

37.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

38.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

39.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

40.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

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

Friedman, Milton

42.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

43.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

44.

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

Baltasar Gracian

45.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

46.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

48.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

49.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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