Motivational Quotes

Power

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

2.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

5.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

6.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

7.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

14.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

15.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

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

Proverb, Norse

18.

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

Adams, John

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Elie Wiesel

21.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

22.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

24.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

28.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

29.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

30.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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.

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

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

41.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

42.

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

Harry Shearer

43.

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

44.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

45.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

46.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

47.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.