Motivational Quotes

Power

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

- Roper, Elmo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

3.

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

Smith, Sydney

4.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

5.

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

6.

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

Harry Shearer

7.

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

8.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Steinem, Gloria

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

13.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Tilly

22.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

23.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

24.

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

25.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

26.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

27.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

Kinkel

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

33.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

36.

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

37.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

Fromm, Erich

44.

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

Lord Macaulay

45.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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