Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

1.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

2.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

3.

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

Friedman, Milton

4.

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.

5.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

6.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

7.

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

8.

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

Wieder, Marcia

9.

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

10.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

11.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

12.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

13.

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

14.

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

Capone, Al

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Archimedes

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Cecil, Richard

19.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

39.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

40.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

41.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

42.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

Boseley, Sarah

44.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

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.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

Malcolm X

48.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

49.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav