Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

2.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

3.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

Rand, Ayn

6.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

8.

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

9.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

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

18.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Eliot, T. S.

27.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

30.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Hooker, Richard

32.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

34.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

36.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

41.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

44.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

46.

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

Barthes, Roland

47.

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

Fromm, Erich

48.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

49.

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

Byrnes, James F.

50.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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