Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

5.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

7.

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

8.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

9.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

10.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Aeschylus

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

Hooker, Richard

21.

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

Barthes, Roland

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Weil, Simone

25.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Joseph Farrell

27.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

28.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

29.

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

30.

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

Lindner, Robert

31.

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

Capone, Al

32.

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

Bannister, Roger

33.

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Herrich

36.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Banks, Harry F.

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

43.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

44.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Friedman, Milton

48.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

49.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

50.

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