Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Power

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Harry Shearer

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

White, Theodore

15.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

19.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

22.

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

23.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

25.

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

Kinkel

26.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

29.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

30.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

31.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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.

33.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

34.

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

Macmillan, Harold

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

41.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

45.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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