Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cecil, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Joseph Farrell

2.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Hazlitt, William

5.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

7.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

12.

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

Friedman, Milton

13.

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

Barthes, Roland

14.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

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

Rand, Ayn

18.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

21.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

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

Proverb, Norse

23.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

24.

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

Aeschylus

25.

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

26.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

27.

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

Cecil, Richard

28.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

34.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

35.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

37.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

38.

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

Boseley, Sarah

39.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

43.

The greatest power is often simple patience.