Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

1.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

2.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

3.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

4.

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

Boseley, Sarah

5.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

7.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Steinem, Gloria

9.

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

Friedman, Milton

10.

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

11.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

12.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

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

Lindner, Robert

14.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

18.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

19.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Swift, Jonathan

30.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

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

Baltasar Gracian

32.

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

33.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

34.

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

Rand, Ayn

35.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

37.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

38.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

39.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Byrnes, James F.

42.

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

43.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

44.

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

John Stuart Mill

45.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

46.

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

47.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

48.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

49.

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

50.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.