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.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

2.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

3.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

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

Macmillan, Harold

5.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

6.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

7.

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

Hazlitt, William

8.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

9.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

Banks, Harry F.

16.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

17.

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

Lindner, Robert

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.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

20.

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

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

23.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

24.

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

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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.

28.

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

Lord Macaulay

29.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

30.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

32.

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

33.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

34.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

35.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Baltasar Gracian

41.

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

White, Theodore

42.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

43.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

44.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

45.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

46.

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

Hooker, Richard

47.

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

Amy Tan

48.

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