Motivational Quotes

Power

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Tilly

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Joseph Farrell

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

10.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

11.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

13.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

14.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

15.

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

Harry Shearer

16.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

20.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

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

23.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Malcolm X

27.

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

28.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

29.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

34.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Wieder, Marcia

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

41.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

42.

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

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

46.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

49.

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