Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Power

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fromm, Erich

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

10.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

14.

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

Herrich

15.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

23.

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

Friedman, Milton

24.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Bible

26.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

30.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

31.

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

Archimedes

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

35.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

36.

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

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Steinem, Gloria

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Harry Shearer

45.

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

Rand, Ayn

46.

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

Malcolm X

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

50.

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