Motivational Quotes

Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

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

Seneca

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

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

11.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

12.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

14.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

15.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

17.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

19.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

24.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

27.

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

Byrnes, James F.

28.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

29.

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

30.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

31.

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

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

37.

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

38.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

39.

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.

40.

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

White, Theodore

41.

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

Bible

42.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

43.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

44.

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

Apocrypha

45.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

47.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

48.

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.

49.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.