Motivational Quotes

Power

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

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

11.

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

Boseley, Sarah

12.

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

Elie Wiesel

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

17.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Banks, Harry F.

20.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

21.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

22.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

23.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

24.

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

Bannister, Roger

25.

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

26.

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

Malcolm X

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Capone, Al

30.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

31.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

32.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Tilly

34.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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When the will is ready the feet are light.