Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Tilly

3.

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

Capone, Al

4.

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

5.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

6.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

7.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

8.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

10.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

11.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

12.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Steinem, Gloria

19.

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

John Stuart Mill

20.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

21.

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

Amy Tan

22.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

23.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

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

25.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

27.

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

28.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

29.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

34.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

36.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

37.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

38.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

39.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

40.

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

Hooker, Richard

41.

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

42.

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

Malcolm X

43.

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

Friedman, Milton

44.

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

45.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

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

48.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

49.

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

50.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William