Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Amy Tan

2.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

3.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

5.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

6.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

9.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Tilly

11.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

13.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

18.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

19.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

Lindner, Robert

23.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Malcolm X

25.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

26.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

31.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

33.

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.

34.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

35.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Steinem, Gloria

37.

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