Best Quotes about Power
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.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Capone, Al
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew
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
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible
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
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Vaneigem, Raoul
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Morgenthau, Hans J.
Man was predestined to have free will.
Luyah, Hal
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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Friedman, Milton
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Haliburton, Thomas C.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
Bible
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Havel, Vaclav
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Thatcher, Margaret
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Adams, John
A boy's will is the will of the wind.
Proverb, Norse
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Jefferson, Thomas
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
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.
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
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Macmillan, Harold
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
Shakespeare, William
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus
The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
Dass, Ram
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
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Banks, Harry F.
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
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Tillich, Paul
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Smith, Sydney
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
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
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible
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
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