Motivational Quotes

Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

2.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

3.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

4.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Tilly

8.

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

Friedman, Milton

9.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

10.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

11.

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.

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

15.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

20.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

22.

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

Lindner, Robert

23.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

27.

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

Friedman, Milton

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Cecil, Richard

35.

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

Byrnes, James F.

36.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

37.

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

Boseley, Sarah

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

40.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

41.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

42.

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

43.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

46.

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.