Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

3.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

4.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

5.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

6.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

7.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

11.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

15.

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

Boseley, Sarah

16.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

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

Kinkel

23.

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

24.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

25.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

26.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

27.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

29.

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

30.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

32.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

34.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

37.

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

38.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

39.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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