Motivational Quotes

Power

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

2.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

4.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

5.

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

Malcolm X

6.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

7.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

8.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

9.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Archimedes

16.

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

Elie Wiesel

17.

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

Seneca

18.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

20.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

21.

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

Kinkel

22.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

23.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

24.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

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

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

28.

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

Capone, Al

29.

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

30.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

32.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

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

34.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

35.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Lindner, Robert

37.

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

Tilly

38.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

39.

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

Friedman, Milton

40.

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

Apocrypha

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

43.

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

Byrnes, James F.

44.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

45.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

46.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

47.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

48.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

50.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.