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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
- Byrnes, James F.
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Vere, Sir Aubrey De

2.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor

3.
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

4.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

6.
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

7.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel

8.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

9.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

12.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Proverb, Spanish

13.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Alinsky, Saul

14.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Thatcher, Margaret

16.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

17.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry

18.
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
Castaneda, Carlos

19.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Andreotti, Giulio

20.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

21.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Mann, Horace

22.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

23.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

24.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Accius

25.
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Cicero, Marcus T.

27.
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Tillich, Paul

28.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay

29.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

30.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb

31.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Aldrich, Withrop

32.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Peter, Laurence J.

33.
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

34.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
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

36.
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

37.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Mizner, Addison

38.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Kohe, J. Martin

39.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

40.
Will is character in action.
Mcdougall, William

41.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible

42.
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

43.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.
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

45.
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

46.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Atwood, Margaret

48.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
Eliot, T. S.

49.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson

50.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Russell, Bertrand


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