Motivational Quotes

Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

3.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

4.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

5.

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

Banks, Harry F.

6.

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

7.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

8.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

Lord Macaulay

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

18.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

20.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

21.

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

Cecil, Richard

22.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

24.

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

Malcolm X

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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.

29.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

30.

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

31.

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

Wieder, Marcia

32.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Elie Wiesel

37.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

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

John Stuart Mill

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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