Julius Caesar Quotes

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

I am Vice President. I am nothing but I may be everything.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.