Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

3.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

4.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

5.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

6.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

8.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

9.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

10.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Wordsworth, William

14.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Wieder, Marcia

16.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

17.

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

18.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

22.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

24.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

25.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

27.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

Proverb, Norse

30.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

31.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

32.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

35.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

36.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

37.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

38.

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

Adams, John

39.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

40.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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