Motivational Quotes

Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

2.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

3.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

4.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

5.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

6.

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

Tilly

7.

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

Amy Tan

8.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

9.

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

10.

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

Lindner, Robert

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

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

Herrich

13.

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

14.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

15.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

20.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

21.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

22.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

23.

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

24.

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

25.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

Proverb, Norse

28.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

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

30.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

31.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

32.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

33.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

34.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Archimedes

38.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

39.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

40.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

41.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.