Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Proverb, Norse

2.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

3.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

4.

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

5.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

7.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

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

Cecil, Richard

10.

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

Bible

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

14.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Baltasar Gracian

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

19.

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

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

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

Weil, Simone

27.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

29.

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

Harry Shearer

30.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

Capone, Al

34.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Macmillan, Harold

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

40.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

42.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

44.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

45.

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