Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

4.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

Malcolm X

6.

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

Archimedes

7.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

8.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

9.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

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

12.

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

Friedman, Milton

13.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

15.

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

16.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

17.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

20.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

24.

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

Cecil, Richard

25.

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

Tilly

26.

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

27.

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

28.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

29.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

32.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

34.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

36.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

46.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

47.

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

48.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

49.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.