Motivational Quotes

Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

2.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

3.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

4.

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.

5.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

8.

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

Harry Shearer

9.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

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

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

20.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

23.

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

Henrik Ibsen

24.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

26.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Aeschylus

29.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Friedman, Milton

35.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

36.

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

Steinem, Gloria

37.

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

Bannister, Roger

38.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

39.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

43.

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

Weil, Simone

44.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

45.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

46.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

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

48.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

49.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard