Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Herrich

2.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

4.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

5.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

6.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

10.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

13.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

14.

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

Apocrypha

15.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

16.

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

Proverb, Norse

17.

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

18.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Lindner, Robert

28.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

30.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

32.

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

33.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

Weil, Simone

35.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

36.

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

Rostand, Jean

37.

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

Steinem, Gloria

38.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

40.

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

41.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

42.

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

44.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

45.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

47.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

48.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

50.

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