Quotes about Power

Diplomat, Political Scientist, Historian

When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Appearance - Danger - Deal - Game - Management - Power - Reality - Sometimes - Support - Vigor

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power - Rude - Weakness - Work

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Original - Power - Progression

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poet, Philosopher, Philosopher

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Achievement - Good - Nature - Power

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Andrew Jackson

Soldier, Former President of the United States

Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.

Effectiveness - Government - Money - Power - State

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Milton Friedman

Athlete, Economist, Economist

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

Good - Harm - Power

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Diplomat, Political Scientist, Historian

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Law - Nations - People - Power - Resistance

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Acquiring - Fame - Man - Meaning - Morals - Power

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Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition - Power

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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Ability - Detachment - Difficulty - Generosity - Giving - Help - Inspiration - Oneself - People - Power

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Anxiety - Beginner - Inspiration - Ownership - Power

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Richard M. Nixon

Businessman, President, 37th U.S. President

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

America - Art - Decision - History - Monarchy - Past - Peace - Phone - Power - Reading

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Character - Gains - Law - Man - Power

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

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

Blindness - Man - Mindset - Power - Strength - Willing

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Werner Heisenberg

Educator, Physicist, Physicist

I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination. If that is the case, it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether Stalin will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.

Ability - Belief - Business - Dominating - Europe - Giving - Good - Past - Power - Willing - Wonder

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Al Franken

Comedian, Author, Former United States Senator

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

Almighty - Nature - Power

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Drive - Manifestation - Power - World

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Adventure - End - Greatness - Hope - Hopelessness - Inspiration - Knowledge - Man - Power - Soul - Survival - World - Youth

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Accept - Actions - Change - Complain - Leaving - Madness - Making - Necessity - Negative - Possibility - Power - Speaking - Taking - Unconscious - Victim

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