Motivational Quotes

Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

11.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

13.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

15.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

16.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

17.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

18.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

21.

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

Lindner, Robert

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

26.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

29.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

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

Capone, Al

32.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

34.

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

Apocrypha

35.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

36.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

Boseley, Sarah

38.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

40.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Kinkel

43.

When the will is ready the feet are light.