Motivational Quotes

Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

2.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

3.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

4.

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

Lao-Tzu

5.

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

Capone, Al

6.

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

7.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

8.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

9.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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.

11.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

12.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

13.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

15.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

17.

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

Adams, John

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Alinsky, Saul

22.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

23.

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

Bannister, Roger

24.

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

25.

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

Weil, Simone

26.

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

27.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

31.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

33.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

37.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

42.

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

Herrich

43.

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

Boseley, Sarah

44.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

45.

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

46.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

47.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

50.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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