Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

4.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

7.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

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

Herrich

11.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

12.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

13.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

14.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

15.

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

Byrnes, James F.

16.

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

Elie Wiesel

17.

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

Aeschylus

18.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Joseph Farrell

20.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

21.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

22.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

24.

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

25.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

26.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

27.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

31.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

32.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Aeschylus

36.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

38.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

39.

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

Amy Tan

40.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

41.

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

Lord Macaulay

42.

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

Proverb, Norse

43.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

44.

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

Bible

45.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

46.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

47.

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

Proverb

48.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

49.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

50.

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

Carnegie, Andrew