Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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.

2.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

3.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

4.

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

Steinem, Gloria

5.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

6.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

7.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Macmillan, Harold

12.

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

Mann, Horace

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

15.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

18.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

19.

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

Weil, Simone

20.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

26.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Alinsky, Saul

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

33.

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

Friedman, Milton

34.

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

35.

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

Barthes, Roland

36.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

39.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

41.

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

Boseley, Sarah

42.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

45.

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

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

48.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

49.

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