Use Of Power Quotes:

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

- William Glasser

topic: Empowering, Use, Use Of Power

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

- Al Gini

topic: Latin, Issues, Use Of Power, Posse

I would define the proper use of power as something that creates happiness for yourself and others.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Use Of Power, Use

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

- Philip Yancey

source: Philip Yancey (2002). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.244, Zondervan

topic: Attitude, Parent, Use Of Power

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush (2014). “41: A Portrait of My Father”, p.186, Crown

topic: People, Use Of Power, Servant Leadership, Servanthood, Servant Leader

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Intelligent, Use Of Power, Use

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

topic: Peace, Challenges, Use, Use Of Power

Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power to protect the guilty than to persecute the innocent. And its motive is not crazy totalitarian utopianism, it's motive is repressive kleptocracy. To steal and to use the powers of the state to protect theft.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Crazy, Europe, United States, Use Of Power, Authoritarianism

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

topic: Real, Character, Adversity, Absolute Power, Real Character

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

- Theodore Bikel

topic: Strong, Humility, Justice, Moral Choices, Accompany

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

- Laurence Steinberg

source: Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

topic: Father, Decision, Rebel, Use Of Power

Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

- Katharine Jefferts Schori

topic: Mean, Exercise, Self, Ability To Change, Use Of Power

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

- George W. Bush

source: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.302, e-artnow sro

topic: Leadership, Names, People, Use Of Power

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

- Scott Cunningham

source: Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

topic: Practice, Magic, Use, Causing Change, Use Of Power

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

- Joan Didion

topic: Power, Use, Materialistic, Uneasy, Use Of Power

My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

- George H. W. Bush

source: Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

topic: Strong, Prayer, Father, Use Of Power

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.

- Elizabeth Dole

topic: Differences, People, Important, Use Of Power

Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Philosophy, Party, Power, Registration, Use Of Power

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Successful, Intelligent, Use Of Power

I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Hurt, Yoga, Buddhism, Use Of Power

All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, Skills, Perspective, Languages Communication, Communication Skills

As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

- Philip Zimbardo

topic: Teacher, Challenges, Roles, Use Of Power