Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

2.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

3.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

5.

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

Barthes, Roland

6.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

7.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Seneca

10.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

11.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

14.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

18.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

19.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

20.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

25.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

26.

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

Adams, John

27.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Seneca

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

32.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

34.

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

Elie Wiesel

35.

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

36.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

39.

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

Apocrypha

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

42.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

43.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

45.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

46.

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

Archimedes

47.

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

48.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

49.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

50.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman