Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

1.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

2.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

3.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

4.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

5.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

6.

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

Smith, Sydney

7.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

8.

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

Banks, Harry F.

9.

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

10.

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

Friedman, Milton

11.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

14.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

18.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

19.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

21.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

23.

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

24.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

25.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

26.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

29.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

30.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

31.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

36.

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

Malcolm X

37.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

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

Bannister, Roger

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

44.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

45.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

46.

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

Steinem, Gloria

47.

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

Billings, Josh

48.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

49.

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

50.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry