Motivational Quotes

Power

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

- Amy Tan

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

2.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

5.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

6.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

7.

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

Adams, John

8.

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

Boseley, Sarah

9.

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

Aeschylus

10.

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

11.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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

Steinem, Gloria

16.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

17.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

18.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

20.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Lindner, Robert

22.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

23.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

24.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

25.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

28.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

29.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

31.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

33.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

34.

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

35.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

36.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

38.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

39.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

41.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

43.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

45.

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

Wordsworth, William

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

48.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

50.

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