Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

3.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

4.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

5.

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

Mann, Horace

6.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

7.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

John Stuart Mill

9.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

11.

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

Byrnes, James F.

12.

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

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Baltasar Gracian

15.

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

Banks, Harry F.

16.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Joseph Farrell

23.

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

Cecil, Richard

24.

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.

25.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

26.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

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

Bannister, Roger

29.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Malcolm X

33.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

34.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

35.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

40.

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

Herrich

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Rand, Ayn

43.

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