Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

2.

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

3.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

4.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

5.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

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

Apocrypha

9.

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

Amy Tan

10.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

12.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

13.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

15.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

16.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

18.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

19.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

20.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

21.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

22.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

24.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Capone, Al

27.

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

28.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

29.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

33.

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

34.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

36.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

37.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

38.

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

39.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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.

45.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

49.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

50.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von