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.

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

Malcolm X

2.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

3.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

4.

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

5.

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

6.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

8.

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

Malcolm X

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

12.

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

Capone, Al

13.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

14.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

16.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

17.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

18.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

20.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

24.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

25.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

28.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

29.

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

Byrnes, James F.

30.

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

Rand, Ayn

31.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

32.

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

33.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

35.

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

Aeschylus

36.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

38.

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

39.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

40.

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

41.

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

Joseph Farrell

42.

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

43.

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

Bannister, Roger

44.

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

Mann, Horace

45.

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

Apocrypha

46.

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