Motivational Quotes

Power

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

2.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

3.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

4.

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

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

6.

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.

7.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

9.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

11.

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

Mann, Horace

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

16.

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

17.

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

Baltasar Gracian

18.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

19.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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.

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

28.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

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

Joseph Farrell

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

33.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Aeschylus

35.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

41.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

42.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

43.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

44.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

Friedman, Milton

46.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Bevan, Aneurin