Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Amy Tan

3.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

4.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

6.

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

7.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

8.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

9.

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

Cotvos

10.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Seneca

13.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

14.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

16.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

17.

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

18.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

19.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

20.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

21.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

22.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

24.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

25.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

26.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

27.

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

Swift, Jonathan

28.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

29.

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

30.

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

Fromm, Erich

31.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

White, Theodore

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

37.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Steinem, Gloria

39.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

40.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

42.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

Rostand, Jean

46.

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

Baldwin, James

47.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Lao-Tzu

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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