Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Einstein, Albert

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

10.

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

Cotvos

11.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

13.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

15.

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

16.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

17.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

18.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

21.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

23.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

26.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

27.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

28.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

29.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

30.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Henrik Ibsen

34.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

35.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

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

Byrnes, James F.

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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

Joseph Farrell

41.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

42.

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.

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

45.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

46.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

47.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

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