Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

3.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

4.

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

5.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

9.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Capone, Al

13.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

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

Carnegie, Dale

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

27.

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

John Stuart Mill

28.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

30.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

31.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

32.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

34.

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

Archimedes

35.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

36.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

37.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

41.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

42.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Cotvos

44.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

47.

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

48.

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

Weil, Simone

49.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

50.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal