Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

2.

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

Herrich

3.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

4.

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

Malcolm X

5.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

8.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

9.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

10.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

11.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

12.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

17.

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

18.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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.

20.

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

22.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

23.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

24.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

25.

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

Steinem, Gloria

26.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

27.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

29.

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

Baltasar Gracian

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

33.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

35.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

38.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

40.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

41.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

47.

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

Cecil, Richard

48.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

49.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

50.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb