Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Seneca

2.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

3.

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

Carnegie, Dale

4.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

5.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

6.

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

7.

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

8.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Barthes, Roland

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

13.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Boseley, Sarah

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Bannister, Roger

22.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

25.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

26.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

29.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

31.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

33.

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

Swift, Jonathan

34.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

37.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

38.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

40.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

41.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

42.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

44.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

45.

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

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

49.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.