Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

2.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

3.

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

Baldwin, James

4.

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

Friedman, Milton

5.

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

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

7.

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

Swift, Jonathan

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

12.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

Lord Macaulay

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

17.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

20.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

22.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

23.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

24.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

25.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

26.

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

Capone, Al

27.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Friedman, Milton

31.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Kinkel

34.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

35.

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

Alinsky, Saul

36.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

37.

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

38.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

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

40.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

41.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

42.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

45.

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

46.

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

Bannister, Roger

47.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

49.

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

50.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von