Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

13.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

14.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

15.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

17.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

19.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

20.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

24.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Byrnes, James F.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

32.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

34.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

36.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

39.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Alinsky, Saul

44.

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

Lindner, Robert

45.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

48.

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

49.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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

Eliot, T. S.