Motivational Quotes

Power

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mencken, H. L.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

10.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

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

12.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

13.

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

Seneca

14.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

16.

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

Capone, Al

17.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

18.

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

20.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

23.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Bible

25.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

26.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

27.

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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Swift, Jonathan

32.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

33.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Aeschylus

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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

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

41.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

42.

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.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The one who wills is the one who can.