Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Rostand, Jean

3.

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

Lindner, Robert

4.

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

Alinsky, Saul

5.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

6.

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

7.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

8.

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

Baldwin, James

9.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

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

11.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Seneca

14.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

21.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

22.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

25.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

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

Friedman, Milton

27.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Macmillan, Harold

31.

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

Friedman, Milton

32.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

33.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Lord Macaulay

38.

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

39.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

40.

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

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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