Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

2.

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

John Stuart Mill

3.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

4.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Kinkel

6.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

7.

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

8.

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

Swift, Jonathan

9.

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

10.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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.

12.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

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

14.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

Mann, Horace

20.

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

21.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Bible

23.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

24.

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

Weil, Simone

25.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

28.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

29.

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

Tilly

30.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

34.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

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