Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

2.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

3.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

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

5.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

6.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

7.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

8.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

13.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

14.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

18.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

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

20.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

28.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

32.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

33.

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

Capone, Al

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.