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.

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

2.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

4.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

5.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Aeschylus

8.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

9.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

10.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

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

16.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

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

18.

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

Swift, Jonathan

19.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

21.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

Bannister, Roger

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

31.

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

Proverb, Norse

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

35.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

36.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

37.

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

38.

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

Archimedes

39.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

40.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

41.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Steinem, Gloria

43.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

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

Cotvos

46.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

47.

When the will is ready the feet are light.