Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

2.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

7.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

8.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Herrich

11.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

17.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

24.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

25.

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

Amy Tan

26.

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

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Lord Macaulay

31.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

32.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

33.

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

34.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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