Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

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.

4.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

5.

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

Malcolm X

6.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

17.

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

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

White, Theodore

21.

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

Mann, Horace

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

23.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Henrik Ibsen

27.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

28.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

29.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Elie Wiesel

31.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

32.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

Steinem, Gloria

34.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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