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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
- Woodrow Wilson
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Smith, Sydney

2.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible

3.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Hazlitt, William

4.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson

5.
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

6.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

7.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

8.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Byrnes, James F.

12.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

13.
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
White, Theodore

15.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.
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

17.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

18.
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

19.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

20.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

21.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.
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

23.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

24.
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
Bannister, Roger

25.
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

26.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Weil, Simone

27.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu

28.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

29.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

30.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

32.
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

33.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Adams, John

35.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Cossman, E. Joseph

37.
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

38.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Steinem, Gloria

39.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Fuller, Thomas

40.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.
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

42.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

43.
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

44.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Proverb, Italian

45.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.
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

47.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall

49.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

50.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Mencken, H. L.


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