Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Barthes, Roland

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

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

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

White, Theodore

10.

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

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

15.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

16.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

19.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

20.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Malcolm X

22.

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

Henrik Ibsen

23.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

24.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

26.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

32.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

34.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

35.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

36.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Amy Tan

38.

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

Bible

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Our power is in our ability to decide.