Motivational Quotes

Power

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

4.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

5.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

6.

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

Mencken, H. L.

7.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

8.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

9.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

12.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

13.

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

Tilly

14.

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

Lord Macaulay

15.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

16.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

18.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

19.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

20.

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.

21.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

22.

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

Herrich

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

White, Theodore

27.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Weil, Simone

31.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

36.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

38.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

39.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

40.

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

41.

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

Kinkel

42.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

43.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

44.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

47.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

48.

Man has will, but woman has her way.