Motivational Quotes

Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Proverb, Norse

2.

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

Weil, Simone

3.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

4.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

6.

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

7.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

8.

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

Lindner, Robert

9.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

11.

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

12.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

18.

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

19.

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

Friedman, Milton

20.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

21.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

25.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Steinem, Gloria

27.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Hooker, Richard

29.

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

Boseley, Sarah

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

33.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

34.

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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.

38.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

39.

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

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

41.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

42.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

43.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

44.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Our power is in our ability to decide.