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.

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

Friedman, Milton

2.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

3.

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

4.

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

Banks, Harry F.

5.

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

6.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

8.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

9.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

12.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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.

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

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

Byrnes, James F.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Apocrypha

22.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

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

24.

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

Joseph Farrell

25.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

31.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

33.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

34.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

36.

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

37.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

38.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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

Barthes, Roland

40.

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

Malcolm X

41.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Amy Tan

43.

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

44.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

45.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

46.

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

Fromm, Erich

47.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.