Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

2.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

3.

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

Swift, Jonathan

4.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

5.

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

Capone, Al

6.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

7.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

12.

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

Byrnes, James F.

13.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

14.

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

Amy Tan

15.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

17.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

20.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

21.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

22.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

23.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

24.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

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

Proverb, Norse

30.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

31.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

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

35.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

36.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

38.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

40.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

42.

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

Wieder, Marcia

43.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.