Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Steinem, Gloria

2.

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

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

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

Barthes, Roland

5.

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

Mencken, H. L.

6.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

7.

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

Aeschylus

8.

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

9.

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

Malcolm X

10.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

12.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

13.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

24.

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

Bannister, Roger

25.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

27.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

28.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

30.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

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

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

38.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.