Motivational Quotes

Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

2.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

4.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

6.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

7.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

8.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

9.

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

12.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

15.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

17.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

18.

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

Wordsworth, William

19.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

20.

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

Steinem, Gloria

21.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

23.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

25.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Byrnes, James F.

27.

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

28.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

30.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

31.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

32.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

33.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

36.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

40.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

41.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

Adams, John

45.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

46.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

47.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

48.

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

49.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

50.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas