Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Proverb

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Kinkel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

11.

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

12.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

13.

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.

14.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

15.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

16.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

21.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

28.

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

Boseley, Sarah

29.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Tilly

31.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

32.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

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

Byrnes, James F.

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

37.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

40.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

46.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

49.

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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul