Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Alinsky, Saul

2.

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

3.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

4.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Lord Macaulay

8.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

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

Steinem, Gloria

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Harry Shearer

13.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

18.

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

19.

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

Byrnes, James F.

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

23.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

24.

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

Russell, Bertrand

25.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

26.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

27.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

30.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

31.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

34.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

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

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

Adams, John

38.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

39.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

41.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

43.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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

Proverb, Norse

47.

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

Herrich

48.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.