Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Carnegie, Dale

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

10.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

11.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

12.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

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

21.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

22.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

23.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

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

Harry Shearer

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Wieder, Marcia

28.

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

John Stuart Mill

29.

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

30.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

34.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

35.

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

36.

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

Rostand, Jean

37.

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

White, Theodore

38.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

39.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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

43.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

44.

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.

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

Cotvos

46.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.