Quotes about power

"Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on power   

"If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you."

Gordon, Charles on power   

"The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on power   

"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on power   

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

Hamilton, Alexander on power   

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."

Havel, Vaclav on power   

"The point of power is always in the present moment."

Hay, Louise L. on power   

"If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power."

Hazlitt, William on power   

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

Herrich on power   

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

Hill, Napoleon on power   

"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 on power   

"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it."

Hoffer, Eric on power   

"Calmness is the cradle of power."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on power   

"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 on power   

"The law always limits every power it gives."

Hume, David on power   

"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 on power
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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

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

Johnson, Lyndon B. on power   

"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 on power   

"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 on power   

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos on power
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"The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do."

Kinkel on power
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"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Kissinger, Henry on power   

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

Kohe, J. Martin on power   

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

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"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 on power   

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

Lincoln, Abraham on power   

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

Macmillan, Harold on power   

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

Malcolm X on power   

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

Mann, Horace on power   

"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 on power   

"Power gravitates to the man who knows how."

Marden, Orison Swett on power   

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

Mencken, H. L. on power   

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

Morgenthau, Hans J. on power   

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold on power   

"Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on power   

"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 on power