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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
- Bevan, Aneurin
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
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

2.
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

3.
When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
Boehme, Jacob

4.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus

5.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

6.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

7.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

8.
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

9.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall

10.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Fuller, Thomas

14.
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.

15.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Swift, Jonathan

16.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu

17.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
Drucker, Peter F.

18.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible

19.
He has the power who the majority believe in.
Raupach

20.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

22.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor

23.
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

24.
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

25.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry

26.
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

27.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Foucault, Michel

28.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.
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

30.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

31.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Capone, Al

32.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Weil, Simone

33.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Peter, Laurence J.

34.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Lincoln, Abraham

35.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Syrus, Publilius

37.
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

38.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Vaneigem, Raoul

39.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

40.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold

41.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

42.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

43.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon

44.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Hare, David

45.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

49.
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes

50.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha


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