Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

4.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

5.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

6.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

7.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

8.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

9.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

11.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

14.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

15.

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

Herrich

16.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

19.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

22.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

29.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

34.

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

Steinem, Gloria

35.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Lord Macaulay

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

42.

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.

43.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

47.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram