Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

2.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

3.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

4.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

5.

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

Friedman, Milton

6.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

Hazlitt, William

9.

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

Malcolm X

10.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

11.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Malcolm X

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

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

15.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

17.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

18.

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

Mann, Horace

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Byrnes, James F.

21.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Tilly

27.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

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

29.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

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

32.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

33.

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

34.

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

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

Capone, Al

36.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

37.

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.

38.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

39.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

44.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

45.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

46.

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